San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat who just got sworn in as San Francisco’s mayor on Wednesday, said in an interview Friday that the city’s streets are flooded with homeless excrement.
Video of a homeless man using drugs on a BART train in San Francisco last month has gone viral, raising concerns about the continued homeless crisis in the city.
A Miami tourist with no arms stabbed a tourist with a pair of scissors using only his feet on Tuesday shortly after midnight, police said.
Horry County Police Officer CJ Mullinax answered a 911 call to a restaurant in South Carolina on Saturday with an act of real compassion.
European Union (EU) migrants who were “illegally” detained and deported after sleeping rough on British streets are set to be paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.
The Ventura Police Department posted a video to their Facebook page, encouraging locals to give to charities rather than offer money directly to the poor.
The Los Angeles Metro may put showers for homeless people near some of its stations, after the board of directors approved a resolution last Thursday to study the issue over the next four months.
Dr. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), toured a homeless women’s center on Los Angeles’s infamous Skid Row Tuesday as part of a fact-finding mission aimed at tackling homelessness and providing job training for inner-city communities throughout the United States.
Fresh off a two-day “pre-presidential” trip to Iowa, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti delivered a State of the City address at City Hall on Monday where he touted Los Angeles as being central to America’s future.
California’s terrible commuter rail service speeds and on-time performance are growing worse, due to homeless camps near the tracks and transients wandering on the rails.
The City of Los Angeles wants to pay property owners to renovate garages and build backyard houses to rent out to the homeless.
A 50-year-old Christian has become the 19th homicide victim in Sadiq Khan’s London this month.
Throngs of protesters from Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel shouted-down an Orange County Supervisors meeting to force a reversal of the plan to set up homeless tent camps next to local city parks.
The Los Angeles City Council voted last week to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.
There has been a rapid doubling in the number of rough sleepers in London since leftist activists won a court battle to block authorities from deporting Romanian and Polish foreigners living on the streets.
The three cities where Orange County planned to erect tent camps to warehouse evicted Santa Ana River homeless people are threatening lawsuits to block the move.
Orange County found 13,950 used hypodermic needles left by evicted homeless people along the Santa Ana River, confirming public health concerns that led to the camps’ removal.
Employees at Disneyland are reportedly struggling to put food on their tables and keep a roof over their heads, painting a different picture of the site billed as “the happiest place on earth.”
The Los Angeles Times has posed a question that may haunt Mayor Eric Garcetti’s presidential ambitions: “How can a city with 58,000 homeless people continue to function?”
Eric Garcetti’s presidential ambitions could be held back by one of the most glaring failures of his administration: the recent surge in homelessness on L.A.’s streets.
Orange County officials have begun removing the thousands of homeless people that now line the 35-mile stretch of the Santa Ana River from Prado Dam to the ocean.
Texas is working to improve its revolving door psychiatric care system thanks to decades-long efforts of those with intimate knowledge of the problems.
The New York City borough of Brooklyn unveiled its plan to provide free showers for the homeless through a mobile shower service bus.
Southern California Edison has been informed by authorities that its equipment is being investigated as a possible cause of some of the fires that have raged across the region for the past week.
Officials said Tuesday afternoon that the Skirball fire was likely caused by homeless people cooking in an encampment near the 405 Freeway, which was shut down by the blaze last Wednesday.
A homeless veteran who spent his last $20 to help a woman buy gasoline received more than $370,000 from the woman he helped, and now he wants to use some of the money to help others.
The number of homeless people living on Los Angeles’s Skid Row is the worst the city has seen since the Great Depression.
A New Jersey woman has raised more than $200,000 for a homeless man in Philadelphia who previously bought her gasoline when she unexpectedly ran out.
Various media outlets in India are reporting that police in Hyderabad are arresting hundreds of “beggars” and placing them in rehab centers (also referred to as ashrams) so that first daughter Ivanka Trump will not have an uncomfortable experience witnessing the city’s destitute during her visit for next week’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).
A Boston high school gave a deceased homeless veteran a military-style send-off after students learned the man died in the streets with no living family members or friends.
Homelessness in Germany has dramatically worsened with the onset of the migrant crisis, rising by 150 per cent to 860,000 between 2014 and 2016.
California Democrats could be in trouble in 2018, with the latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll finding registered voters’ top concerns are the traditionally Republican issues of high cost of living, jobs, taxes, and illegal immigrants.
During her annual State of the City address on Thursday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called on her constituents to open their doors and residences to the city’s homeless, as union workers picketed against her for her administration’s handling of the city’s rampant housing problem.
There has been a fall in the number of rough sleepers in London for the first time in around 10 years thanks to a policy of deporting Romanian and Polish migrants with no means of supporting themselves in the UK.
The California hepatitis A outbreak is on the verge of reaching statewide epidemic status, as cases have spread through homeless tent cities from San Diego north to Sacramento.
