Category: Homelessness
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NYTimes: After Abuse Allegations, $2 Billion Homeless Shelter Network Faces Scrutiny
After Abuse Allegations, $2 Billion Shelter Network Faces Scrutiny https://nyti.ms/3p2GAKd This New York homeless leader abused women, gave plum jobs to his family and got rich. This is extreme. BUT I’M TELLING YOU: Homeless people are nothing other than a paycheck to ALL these agencies that get millions of dollars from the government. “In 15+…
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Homeless People Refuse To Allow Homeless Woman To Buy Tacos Before Church
I don’t know what the homeless people are against this woman’s pre-church taco obsession but they are and SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT. https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/city-crews-to-clear-out-homeless-camp-behind-councilmans-office
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San Jose business owners say they are fed up with homeless
We live in a country where it is completely acceptable to display homeless hate. ‘Do something!’ –San Jose business owners say they are fed up with homeless – San José Spotlight “We will soon see a hero before us to rid the world of these parasites who infect and destroy life and property,” Arturo Lionetti, plant…
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Oregon could limit bans on homeless camping
These kinds of laws are a start to end anti-homeless policy. Everyone must be able to live somewhere in their own city regardless of how much money they have. Safe spaces for tents is a requirement for everyone that needs or wants it. Oregon could limit bans on homeless camping – OPB Cities and counties…
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Council, mayor to consider permanent homeless encampment site near downtown Indianapolis
There truly isn’t any other morally acceptable solution than this. We need triage emergency shelter for every single American who needs it TONIGHT. Council, mayor to consider permanent homeless encampment site near downtown Indianapolis | Fox 59 The city would also seek out a piece of property, likely zoned industrial, in the greater downtown area…
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New homeless camp appears after Bellingham sweep near City Hall
Homeless people have every right in the book to be angry. New homeless camp appears after Bellingham sweep near City Hall | king5.com Neighbors fear the camp will increase crime, drive away business and spark clashes similar to what was seen at City Hall.
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Activists take over Washington hotel to demand housing for homeless during pandemic
If you are new to this fight you need to know that we have asked kindly for YEARS. There is not much left to do other than what these people are doing. Activists take over Washington hotel to demand housing for homeless during pandemic – ABC News Members of a housing advocacy group were arrested…
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Local churches house homeless from snow storm in Harrisburg PA
Doing what is right isn’t hard once you wake up to the fact that it is a moral necessity to do so. Local churches house homeless from snow storm HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Christian Churches United Men’s and Women’s winter overnight shelters in Harrisburg are opening earlier Sunday and Monday due to the snow,…
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Large Homeless Encampment Reappears In East Oakland; Business Owners, Neighbors Begging City Officials To Take Action
STAND STRONG HOUSELESS PEOPLE! You are right. They are wrong. Large Homeless Encampment Reappears In East Oakland; Business Owners, Neighbors Begging City Officials To Take Action – CBS San Francisco A police officer and neighbors said the homeless broke down a fence and took over the large lot next to the High Street Home Depot…
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Salt Lake City activist allows new homeless encampment on his front lawn
If just a few people would be willing to shelter homeless people and they were seen as heroes and not pariahs homelessness would be over tomorrow. Salt Lake City activist allows new homeless encampment on his front lawn “I just think that’s it’s a lot better environment to have somebody open their yard and pretty…
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‘Save our community’: Neighbors protest against plan to house homeless people at northwest Austin hotel
‘Save our community’: Neighbors protest against plan to house homeless people at northwest Austin hotel | KXAN Austin AUSTIN (KXAN) — Neighbors of a northwest Austin hotel touted as a potential location to house homeless people voiced their opposition to the plans on Sunday morning. Dozens of people gathered for a protest by the Candlewood…
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Protesters for the homeless told to leave vacant building in Kalamazoo
Protesters for the homeless told to leave vacant building in Kalamazoo | WWMT KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A group of activists for the homeless took over a former publishing building in Kalamazoo near a homeless encampment and were vacated by police. A group calling themselves No One Needs To Sleep Outside entered the former home of…
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For the first time, Sacramento opens parking garage to provide homeless shelter from winter storms
For the first time, Sacramento opens parking garage to provide homeless shelter from winter storms “We mobilized that in just a few hours,” said Daniel Bowers, director of emergency services for the City of Sacramento. “[There’s] onsite security throughout the night, they can park in a protected area and they can get a good night’s…
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Opinion | How Many Americans Are Homeless? No One Knows – The New York Times
We don’t count homeless people accurately because we don’t want to let on what an incredible nightmare is truly going on in the richest, most Christian country in the world. Opinion | How Many Americans Are Homeless? No One Knows – The New York Times The government pretends that the problem is smaller than it…
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The People Stand With Their Homeless Brothers and Sisters in Bellingham Washington
If you have learned nothing else in 2020 I hope you learned that you simply can’t ask the government nicely to bring justice to its people. There is no other alternative other than fighting for it.
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2 Homeless People Died During Storm Overnight
This only happens for one reason: We judge homeless people for their suffering. And so we leave them to freeze to death on the streets of the most Christian, richest country in the world. 2 Homeless People Died During Storm Overnight, Sacramento Mayor Says – CBS Sacramento “Just confirmed that one unhoused person…
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The former “Super K-Mart” at Winchester and Riverdale has now become a small homeless camp
“It makes us look really bad as a city.” – this is the essence of the entire homeless epidemic. People are embarrassed they have poor people that have nowhere to live. Hickory Hill residents frustrated with homeless living outside vacant building
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Pallet creating prefab tiny homes for the homeless
I feel like $5000 is still too expensive. But I like these. A lot. Pallet creating prefab tiny homes for the homeless – Business Insider “What we felt was really missing from the housing spectrum was a dignified shelter option that honored their individuality and allowed them to have autonomy in their rehabilitation process,” Amy…
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Duluth is building yurts for homeless people
This isn’t hard. Allowing people to freeze to death unsheltered in immoral, inhumane and cruel. Anyone who thinks withholding shelter from a person with no shelter is evil and cruel. Duluth advocates push ahead with yurts-for-homeless initiative | Duluth News Tribune “Indigenous people have lived this way for all of our existence. We know how…
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Save Austin Now looks to put the homeless camping ban on the May ballot
Save Austin Now looks to put the homeless camping ban on the May ballot | KXAN Austin “Homelessness is not being addressed right now. Telling a homeless person they can sleep in a tent in 30-degree weather, give them no mental health treatment, no drug and alcohol treatment, no food, no real shelter — that’s…