Homeless

A 62-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in a voter fraud scheme in which homeless people in downtown Los Angeles were allegedly offered “money and cigarettes” in exchange for hundreds of “false and forged signatures on ballot petitions and voter registration forms,” according to city authorities. The…

Blair Damon launched a mortgage company two years ago in central Florida to work primarily with first-time homebuyers. Today, BD Mortgage Group has nine employees and offices in St. Petersburg as well as San Antonio and Fort Washington, Maryland.  Blair Damon of BD Mortgage Group and Damon Housing Properties, LLC.…

Alexey Malgavko, a photojournalist working with Reuters, spent time this winter among the homeless population of the Russian city of Omsk. Life is extremely difficult for those living rough in a city where wintertime-low temperatures can reach –22 degrees Fahrenheit (–30 Celsius) at night. Many survive the cold by finding…

President Donald Trump has veered into politics during a briefing on preparations for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, criticizing the city's political leadership for failing to curtail its homeless epidemicBy ZEKE MILLER Associated PressFebruary 19, 2020, 3:08 AM5 min readLOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday veered…

World's First Opioid Vending Machine Opens In Vancouver (theguardian.com) Posted by BeauHD on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:30PM from the first-of-its-kind dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the…

'Housing is not the end': Former homeless struggle to adapt

Radio astronomers at the CHIME array in British Columbia have discovered the first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that repeats on a reliable schedule. This should allow researchers to study this mysterious interstellar phenomenon in a way that has not previously been…

It’s no secret that it’s hard to make the economics work at drive-share companies. That may explain the success to date of HopSkipDrive, a six-year-old, L.A.-based company that pairs drivers with both families but also, crucially, school districts. Specifical…

Torre Harris and Tawana Hughes embrace. Tim Morris/Operation Victory/Facebook Torre Harris is a Marine veteran who was homeless on and off for 15 years.100 volunteers from Operation Victory spent six months remodeling an abandoned house in Kentucky, finally giving Harris a home."I just couldn't believe there was so many nice…

Last week, Bradenton, Florida brewery Motorworks Brewing made headlines with their idea to put local animal shelter dogs’ photos on their beer cans to help with pet adoption. Monica Mathis saw the story and recognized her dog Day Day who went missing three ye…