
Powerful rain storms brought on by El Niño battered California on Tuesday, causing headache-inducing road closures; mud and debris flows; flooding; and the opening of a half-dozen temporary shelters for the state’s homeless.
by Daniel Nussbaum6 Jan 2016, 11:32 AM PST0

California senators have proposed a $2 billion legislative package aimed at providing the state’s homeless population with permanent housing.
by Daniel Nussbaum5 Jan 2016, 5:00 AM PST0

On Sunday, a 55-year-old known homeless man was found shot dead near Heritage Park in Santa Ana.
by William Bigelow15 Dec 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

An unidentified bike messenger is being lauded as a hero after he helped deliver a baby under a San Francisco bus shelter to a homeless woman who did not even know she was pregnant.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Nov 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

A homeless man living in an encampment in Los Angeles was found armed with two machine guns, four handguns, two makeshift silencers and ammunition. He was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
by William Bigelow27 Nov 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

A progressive catfight has erupted between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as they argue over who is more sympathetic to the homeless.
by William Bigelow26 Nov 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has admitted that street panhandlers and homelessness have “exploded” under Mayor Bill de Blasio, and it was a “mistake” to not acknowledge the problem.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Nov 2015, 1:57 PM PST0

While California prepares nervously for the coming El Niño, a host of unwanted consequences from the expected rainstorms could prove troublesome for the drought-ravaged state–mudslides, flash floods and now, a threat to the state’s unsheltered homeless population.
by Daniel Nussbaum29 Oct 2015, 5:41 PM PST0

When it was time for three homeless veterans to be laid to rest, with no loved ones to serve as pallbearers, six Detroit high school students stepped forward, setting up a program similar to one they learned about in Cleveland.
by John Hayward28 Oct 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

The Sacramento Regional Transit Board of Directors instituted new rules on Monday aimed at cleaning up the city’s public transportation and improving service for riders — but riders with smelly body odor can keep their seats, for now.
by Daniel Nussbaum27 Oct 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

A place in San Francisco’s Mission District that was recently named one of the “most beautiful spots” in the city by San Francisco Travel Magazine has turned into a human toilet, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
by Adelle Nazarian26 Oct 2015, 12:34 PM PST0

One Sacramento bride’s family turned a traumatic wedding event into an altruistic and beautiful affair, burying their despair after the groom backed out at the last second and using their $35,000 wedding meal to feed the homeless.
by William Bigelow19 Oct 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

A Mexican politician became the target of criticism after she recently asked if giving a lethal injection to the region’s homeless and those with psychiatric ailments was a better option than letting them run wild. The comment was made by Olga Gutierrez de Machorro, a public official in the Mexican town of Tecamachalco Puebla
by Ildefonso Ortiz8 Oct 2015, 3:09 AM PST0

Following the departure of Pope Francis, the streets of eastern Holguín, Cuba, have been flooded with dozens of homeless people that residents say had “disappeared as if by magic” in the week before the Pope’s arrival.
by Frances Martel29 Sep 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

The City of Los Angeles is preparing to declare a state of emergency on the epidemic levels of homeless population and is planning to use $100 million dollars to spearhead the fight that one councilman suggested is a precursor to
by Michelle Moons22 Sep 2015, 7:06 PM PST0

WWE wrestler Titus O’Neil treated a group of homeless people to lunch at a restaurant in San Diego over the weekend and documented the experience on social media.
by Daniel Nussbaum4 Aug 2015, 4:07 PM PST0

Police in Gastonia, North Carolina, have arrested 19-year-old Donald Wallace Jr. for allegedly beating a 78-year-old homeless man to a point near death with a cinder block.
by AWR Hawkins14 Jul 2015, 6:34 PM PST0

A light bulb flashed in Darcel Jackson’s head one night, while lying in bed in a homeless shelter in San Francisco, that the greatest thing he could do for homeless people would be to connect them to the internet.
by Robert Wilde19 May 2015, 8:40 AM PST0

LOS ANGELES — According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s biennial report, the homeless population of the city and county of Los Angeles climbed 12% in the last two years as tents, makeshift dwellings and cars used by the homeless skyrocketed by 85%.
by William Bigelow12 May 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck is in hot water with police unions after commenting on the police shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice Tuesday evening. Beck said, “Any time an unarmed person is shot by a Los Angeles police officer, it takes extraordinary circumstances to justify that. I have not seen those extraordinary circumstances,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
by William Bigelow7 May 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

On Thursday, the Republic of Santa Monica, California, not content with its 2010 designation as the homeless capital of America, when 48,000 people lived on the streets, won a victory in its continuing quest to capture the title of America’s most anti-Christian city.
by William Bigelow1 May 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

On Sunday, an apparently homeless man was shot and killed by Los Angeles police as he resisted attempts to subdue him. LAPD spokesman Sgt. Barry Montgomery said around noon the police arrived in response to a robbery call on 911. Montgomery said that LAPD officers used a Taser, although it was unclear whether the man, whose street nickname was “Africa,” was struck by the Taser.
by William Bigelow2 Mar 2015, 1:49 PM PST0

A new ID card issued by the city of New York, called IDNYC, has drawn an unexpectedly huge response, as some New Yorkers who already have government-issued identification have joined enormous numbers of illegal immigrants, elderly residents, and even the homeless to clamor for such a card.
by William Bigelow28 Feb 2015, 9:46 PM PST0

The story of professional golfer Robert Allenby’s mugging, which hooked badly when homeless people claimed that he fabricated it, has sliced back in the fairway after Honolulu police acknowledged a suspect in the robbery is in custody.
by William Bigelow12 Feb 2015, 12:15 PM PST0

The Vatican has announced a new program of giving free haircuts, showers, and even a shave to Rome’s homeless population, a report says. This month the new services were added to last year’s announcement that church officials were adding showering facilities in
by Warner Todd Huston30 Jan 2015, 7:45 AM PST0