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Two men who were believed to be homeless were found dead on the New York City subway trains in less than 24 hours this past weekend.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti nearly broke down in tears as he delivered his annual “State of the City” address on Sunday evening in front of an empty City Council chamber.

The “vast majority” of the adult homeless shelter population in Boston who tested positive for the novel coronavirus showed no symptoms.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s sheltering of homeless persons in recreation centers increases the risk of coronavirus’ spread, warned Susie Gilman.

Gerald Shiroma, a worker at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles, died from coronavirus late last week, according to shelter director Rev. Andrew Bales.

The lawsuit alleges that Eric Garcetti’s plan violates CDC guidelines and would expose the community to greater risk coronavirus infection.

There are nine confirmed cases of coronavirus among the homeless population in Los Angeles as of Thursday — nearly double the total reported the day before — as the illness continues to spread, city officials said.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti closed farmers’ markets in the city Monday for fear of coronavirus transmission — while continuing to move thousands of homeless people into temporary shelters where transmission is more likely.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic presented a unique opportunity to address homelessness — and that the ideal solution involved tent cities on public land outside.

Three Seattle-area homeless shelters have been closed because of coronavirus infections, and the residents inside have been “quarantined” inside the facilities for 14 days.

Officials in Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada moved hundreds of homeless people to an open-air parking lot this weekend after an individual inside a shelter tested positive for coronavirus, posing a risk to other residents.

Confusion is growing around Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan to relocate the homeless to recreation centers during the coronavirus outbreak, which contradicts Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a paper reporting that Japanese data showed that coronavirus transmission was nearly 20 times more likely indoors than outdoors.

It took coronavirus to provoke Los Angeles to move homeless people off the streets. But what the city is doing could make the pandemic worse.

CDC guidelines explicitly state that local authorities should not clear homeless encampments during “community spread” of coronavirus.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pursuing a plan to house 6,000 homeless people in recreation centers during the coronavirus pandemic. But that plan ignores Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on the subject.

While L.A. moves thousands of homeless people to recreation centers, 30 people in homeless shelters in New York have tested positive for coronavirus.

Community leaders are demanding answers from city officials as the City of Los Angeles continues to implement a plan to move homeless people indoors into recreation centers in residential areas during the coronavirus outbreak.

Breitbart News visited two recreation centers in Los Angeles on Monday where the homeless are being moved as part of the city’s plan to keep coronavirus from spreading among that population.

California’s coronavirus policy has reached a point of contradiction: the state is releasing inmates from its jails to prevent the spread of coronavirus in close quarters, while at the same time moving homeless people to recreation centers in residential areas.

Some homeless people are reportedly skeptical of a new plan by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to relocate them to recreation centers in residential communities to contain the coronavirus pandemic, fearful they will be less safe in shelters.

Mayor Eric Garcetti is going ahead with a plan to move thousands of homeless people in Los Angeles into recreation centers in residential neighborhoods as part of the city’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A veterinarian is making it his mission in life to treat the pets of the California homeless for no charge, and people who know his work call him the “Street Vet” in honor of that role.

A city councilmember warned Wednesday of the potential health issues the growing homeless community poses in Malibu, California.

California Governor Gavin Newsom admitted Wednesday in his second annual “State of the State” address to the legislature in Sacramento that homelessness is a “disgrace” in the Golden State, and laid out a plan to address it.

The homelessness problem is getting out of hand and increasing the risk of danger, a steakhouse owner in Austin, Texas, said recently. 

A homeless man in San Antonio, Texas, is taking his troubled life and turning it around by making and selling crosses he makes by hand out of palm leaves to members of the community.

Police in the Texas capital city arrested a homeless woman they say confessed to stabbing five women last night. The stabbings allegedly occurred in the famous Sixth Street entertainment area.

D.C. is citing danger to pedestrians as the reason for removing tents pitched by homeless residents in the underpass below K Street.

Homelessness is the number one issue for California voters heading into the 2020 presidential primary in March, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), as reported by the Sacramento Bee.

A homeless man was arrested after he allegedly tried to snatch a little girl from her mother’s arms in Venice, California, Saturday. 

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reportedly reached out this week to the Trump administration to ask for federal assistance in dealing with the city’s homeless population, which has been growing rapidly and posing a severe public health hazard.

Former Vice President Joe Biden received an endorsement from California on Thursday, with the potential to both boost and damage his standing in the delegate-rich Super Tuesday state.

Greyhound, in partnership with the National Runaway Safeline, are offering prodigal children a way home for the new year.

California Governor Gavin Newsom boasted about his state’s effort to fight the crisis of homelessness in the state, as President Donald Trump criticized California politicians for the second day in a row for neglecting the problem.

Two brothers decided to donate their Christmas gifts to children displaced by a fire that broke out in a Minneapolis, Minnesota, building that houses the homeless on early Wednesday morning.