A rough sleeper turned into a cause célèbre by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he was found dead in a London underpass near Parliament turns out to have been an illegal migrant paedophile who had been deported twice.
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.
Rough sleeping has soared to record levels, with nearly 5,000 people estimated sleeping rough last year in England, while councils rolled out the red carpet for refugees.
A New York ex-con who reportedly wanted to make amends walked into a New York City police station Saturday to allegedly confess to the 2013 murder of a homeless man.
Hundreds of rough sleepers could sue the Home Office after the High Court ruled it is illegal to target feigners living on Britain’s streets for deportation.
Left-wing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s New York City has a serious homelessness problem, with a new government report showing that homelessness has jumped by 4.1 percent in 2017.
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.
Some critics of San Diego’s response to a deadly outbreak of Hepatitis A among the homeless population are placing partial blame on the recent plastic bag ban.
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.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Dr. Ben Carson joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about healthcare reform and his accomplishments at HUD.
The homeless population in New York City increased by nearly 40 percent in 2017, according to a new survey.
A group of Australian CEOs were criticized after using virtual reality to partake in a charity “CEO Sleepout” which was supposed to recreate the “experience” of “being homeless.”
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.
The city of Portland will allow homeless families to move into government-built mini houses in the backyards of residents willing to host them.
Statistics that come as the high-profile court case surrounding Royal Marine sergeant Alex Blackman reaches its conclusion show the disproportionately high level of former servicemen in British jails. Ministry of Justice statistics show that approximately 5 per cent of the
The number of people sleeping rough on England’s streets has risen by more than 50 per cent in the last two years, with more than one in five of those sleeping rough identified as migrants.
The massive Oakland fire that killed at least nine and perhaps dozens more people Friday night at a warehouse artists’ collective known as the “Ghost Ship” symbolizes the Bay Area’s internal struggle with its own success as a creative hub.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled last week that visitors to the city’s Dolores Park may relieve themselves using an open-air urinal that was deemed constitutional, despite legal action attempted against it that argued otherwise.
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
After years of wasting $7 billion trying to support homeless mentally ill on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on July 1 to use $2 billion of Prop 63 bond money to build 14,000 housing units for the population.
Two Los Angeles City Council members are pushing for a November ballot measure that, if voted in, would authorize a bond of at least $1 billion that would go towards housing for the city’s 47,000-person (and growing) homeless population.
Journalists and reporters in the Bay Area are joining forces to flood news and social media with reports on San Francisco’s homelessness epidemic next month, with the hope that it will create a “wave” of coverage that will ultimately force politicians to take action to fix a problem that lurks at almost every corner of the space-starved city.
Birmingham city councillors have come together to pledge to re home 500 Syrians within the city over the next five years, despite having 30,000 local people already registered on their books for social housing in the area. The waiting lists
Panhandling has gone high tech in Detroit, with one man taking handouts on a smart phone with a credit card reader.
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
The latest report into homelessness by the Greater London Authority has revealed a startling growth in the number of rough sleepers from Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular stress on the number of Romanian nationals now homeless in Britain’s capital. The
Fresno’s Republican Mayor Ashley Swearengin delivered her annual State of the City address on Wednesday, accepting accolades for her role in leading the city out of socio-economic blight.
A new economic analysis finds that Santa Clara Country could completely end its homeless problem at zero net cost by providing public housing for every single person living on the street. The study, from the Knowledge for Greater Good Economic
Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon thinks former President Ronald Reagan is to blame for America’s reluctance to discuss the issue of homelessness.
Inspired by her experience with homeless drifter-turned national celebrity Jesse Helt last August, Miley Cyrus is up in arms about the number of runaway teens in the United States, and in particular, those within the LGBT community.
Vogue style editor-at-large Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, a member of German royalty, is being described as “out of touch,” among other things, after she shared a photo of a homeless woman reading Vogue magazine.
This week, Los Angeles leaders formally committed themselves to ending veteran homelessness in L.A. by October of this year.
Authorities in the Philippines engaged in an extensive effort to clear Manila’s streets of homeless children, a Daily Mail report uncovered, to shield Pope Francis from witnessing the crushing poverty the capital’s homeless face. Children were rounded up and caged in jail cells, made to eat scraps of food on the floor, and beaten by older inmates.
