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.
A deadly outbreak of Hepatitis A that has claimed 18 lives in San Diego County in recent months, mostly among the rapidly-growing homeless population, has spread to Los Angeles.
San Diego’s nearly year-old Hepatitis outbreak is getting worse, forcing the Southern California port city to take extreme measures, including sanitary street washing in the downtown area, according to Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s office on Friday.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a controversial program Tuesday to pay homeowners up to $75,000 to house homeless people on their own property.
A homeless man convicted of bank robbery got his wish to return to prison after a judge sentenced him to 15 years behind bars.
Anaheim’s homeless are missing bus stop benches some had used to rest on. The city recently removed the benches from areas surrounding the iconic Disneyland theme park in an effort to push back against the increasing homeless population.
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it would build a homeless shelter inside of their Seattle HQ, donating nearly 50,000 square feet to the project.
Although geeks have long merrily been celebrating Pi Day by dressing-up as ancient mathematicians, marching around in circles, and eating fruit pies since 1988, this year’s Silicon Valley festivities were hijacked to protest President Trump.
Las Vegas police came up with an innovative way to catch a killer by placing a mannequin a few feet from where they discovered a victim’s body in the hopes that the suspect would try to attack it.
The City of Portland in Maine is considering a plan that would get panhandlers off street corners and put them to work.
Los Angeles County supporters of Measure H announced they have received $3.5 million in contributions toward raising sales taxes on America’s poorest residents to pay for America’s largest homeless population.
New York City’s far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to turn back the “tide of homeless” by opening 90 new homeless shelters throughout the city.
Police arrested seven people Saturday for reportedly feeding the homeless without a permit in Florida.
Washington, D.C. has the highest rate of homelessness among big cities, according to a survey of 32 big cities by the United States Conference of Mayors.
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A homeless man in Los Angeles has gotten quite innovative with turning a freeway underpass into his personal compound.
The homeless population in New York City has reached an all-time high.
With the second-highest density of homeless people in the United States, San Francisco tech titans are funding Measure Q on the November ballot, which would allow police to give 24 notice before clearing homeless street camps.
While thousands of born Germans remain homeless, one city is building trendy downtown apartments for single male migrants on the corner of the Oberhausen Peace Square. The majority of the million migrants who arrived in Germany last year are now in
