Category: Homelessness

Homeless camping outside a Santa Ana non-profit at center of dispute – Orange County Register What began as a few people sleeping outside El Centro Cultural de Mexico in downtown Santa Ana has, in recent months, grown to more than 40 homeless living in tents in the non-profit’s parking lot, pitting center operators against the…

  3 die when car hits 9 people in San Diego homeless camp – 104.5 WOKV SAN DIEGO — (AP) — A driver plowed through a sidewalk homeless encampment Monday in downtown San Diego, killing three people and injuring six others, authorities said. Craig Voss, 71, was heading through a tunnel underneath a community college…

Homeless set up tents next to City Hall to push for solutions. Four days later, Dallas rousted them again. Camp Rhonda, a homeless encampment of about 30 tents, was moving Friday for the second time in five days. Dallas police showed up at Pioneer Plaza in the morning and told residents that the park needed…

This is from this article: ‘I think it’s going to get worse’: More people living in homeless camps in Savannah Savannah looks like they are addressing their homeless crisis with intelligence and strategy… not fear and hate like most other cities in America.

Yet again, these fucking homeless service providers blame homeless people for not “accepting help.” That’s just propaganda bullshit so that we don’t wake up to the fact that these homeless service providers can’t do their job.

Callowhill park will be built for and designed by homeless people in Philadelphia Though the consulting with homeless people hasn’t started yet, some notions of what should be built into the space are percolating, she said. That includes hand-washing stations, access for drinking water, storage space for the belongings of people who are homeless, and…

Pastor Kimberley Pullings from FHC Live Church is nothing other than an apologist for Jacksonville government. “It’s scary, we understand it’s traumatic. we understand that you’re hurt. You’re fearful, but at the same time it’s a part of the process, but it can be done; it’s doable,” Pastor Kimberley Pullings of Live Church said. The…

Newark unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers – nj.com Newark Homelessness Czar Sakinah Hoyte held back tears as she unvield a lot filled with seven converted shipping containers to house 24 residents without addresses for a 90-day pilot program. “We have been able to do what felt like the impossible in establishing a…

I thought maybe the Covid would change the mentality of city governments towards their homeless residents. I was wrong. They still despise them. At Denny Park, Seattle quietly tries to remove homeless encampment | The Seattle Times Dozens of police and parks employees descended Wednesday on Denny Park, where only a handful of homeless campers…

Showers for the homeless now available in Downtown Stockton | abc10.com STOCKTON, Calif. — Those who are experiencing homelessness in Stockton have a new way to shower and be clean. The Downtown Stockton Alliance has purchased a $65,000 mobile shower unit. The unit offers three showers, a toilet and a sink. Orange County Quietly Shut…

This video brought back a TON of memories. This was some of the last footage of our village as we were forced to shut it down by order of the City of Akron.

Less homeless people had shelter in Maricopa County in 2020 than any other year In Maricopa County, housing experts say they only expect the homelessness problem to get worse as more people are dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s my video reaction to the above story: Less homeless people had shelter in Maricopa…

Homeless camp evictions on ODOT property frustrates some Bend residents | Local&State | bendbulletin.com Several residents in the past week have written emails or spoken to the Bend City Council with the plea to end homeless camp removal efforts along the Bend Parkway. “That motion disconnects them from the services that could help them get…

This is SO amazing. Every city in America needs these. Because housing costs are wildly out of whack with income these kinds of tiny home villages will be an inevitable part of all major cities in America. And they are just fine. It’s a community-based form of living that is truly wonderful in many ways.

Helping the homeless: Austin volunteers pay for hotel rooms, deliver food | KXAN Austin AUSTIN (KXAN) — As temperatures reach new lows and snow and ice pile up on the streets, the homeless camps that are usually bustling look abandoned.  The relocation of many of Austin’s homeless population is partially thanks to citizen volunteer groups,…

Berlin Germany hotels open their doors to homeless during pandemic | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 16.02.2021 Berlin’s shelters have run out of space during the coronavirus winter. Hotels are empty, so some have decided to let people experiencing homelessness stay for free. This is changing lives. Officers…

I’m going to try putting all the homeless headlines I found interesting for the day into one post.  L.A. homeless COVID vaccine distribution is fraught with obstacles – Los Angeles Times Doctors and nurses had culled a list of nearly 900 homeless people they wanted to vaccinate. Their outreach workers walked the streets of skid…

Here are a bunch of articles talking about how “concerned” people are about homeless people freezing to death in America. It’s all bullshit. Do you know what happens when a bank looks like it might fail? Every politician in America jumps to their aid and bails them out. Americans freezing to death doesn’t matter the…