Videos tweeted by a Seattle journalist shows the fortification of a homeless camp ahead of a police sweep scheduled for Wednesday. One of the videos show Antifa members wearing black bloc chasing the camera crew from the area.
NYC residents are complaining about huge rats scurrying around Central Park and in neighborhoods, with many blaming on the virus lockdown.
The Trump administration on Monday released a national plan to address homelessness across the country, including racial disparitites.
The Canadian city of London, Ontario, is using artificial intelligence (AI) software to predict which residents are most vulnerable to becoming homeless so it can rush emergency financial assistance to them — The city government sees homelessness as a growing problem because of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to NGO Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF), 55 per cent of those living on the streets of the Paris region might be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, the vast majority of them migrants.
A homeless woman who has battled drug abuse, addiction, and abandonment successfully applied for a job at a Tennessee Kroger after sleeping in the store’s parking lot.
A homeless encampment in New York City has thrived on a street corner in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio learning about the encampment three weeks ago and vowing to take action “right away.”
A man who used to live on the streets of San Antonio, Texas, has turned his life around, battling addiction and homelessness to get a job as a maintenance man cleaning downtown San Antonio’s streets.
Homelessness rose by 13% in Los Angeles County, and 14% in the City of Los Angeles itself, over the year ending in January, according to the annual homeless count released on Friday.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blamed “institutional racism” for homelessness, though liberal California is entirely responsible for the nation’s rise in homelessness.
A Florida teenager has beaten the odds of homelessness to become the top graduating student in his high school class.
Deaths have soared among the homeless population in San Francisco during the coronavirus, but not due to the virus directly.
The City of San Francisco opened its first officially-sanctioned homeless camp this week, located outside City Hall.
Half of the 15,000 hotel rooms leased under Operation Roomkey, California’s program to provide emergency housing to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, are empty.
The city of San Francisco is facing a lawsuit filed by the University of California Hastings College of the Law, local businesses, and local residents over the Tenderloin district’s “deplorable” conditions including feces in the streets and relentless drug dealing.
A report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that 66% of homeless people in a San Francisco shelter tested positive for coronavirus, renewing concerns about indoor housing during the pandemic.
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.
San Francisco has canceled plans to move hundreds of homeless people to a large indoor space in a convention center after 70 people at a shelter tested positive for coronavirus. It will move homeless people to hotels instead — or leave them in tents.
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.
In another setback for Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s effort to move homeless people into neighborhood recreation centers, a homeless individual who was sheltered at a rec center in Granada Hills has reportedly tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, igniting fears that the virus could start to spread like wildfire among the city’s homeless population.
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 has confirmed its first cases of coronavirus among the homeless population — and a staffer who works at a temporary shelter has also tested positive for the virus.
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.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti threatened “non-essential” businesses Tuesday that if they do not obey the city’s “stay at home” order to close during the pandemic crises, he will cut off their water and their electricity.
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.
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.
California attorney and Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon blasted her hometown of San Francisco over its response to the coronavirus outbreak in a series of tweets on Tuesday.
Scott Presler, whose goal is to clean up U.S. cities, said it is wrong to help illegal immigrants while ignoring homeless Americans.
