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Rukshini Ponniah-Goulin, executive director of the Downtown Mission speaks during a press conference on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at the Downtown Windsor BIA office. Photo by Dan Janisse /The Windsor Star Article content Windsor’s Downtown Mission is rolling out a new series of public meetings to strengthen connections with the…

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner speaks during a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies hearing on the fiscal year 2027 budget request for HUD in the Dirksen Senate Office Building near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday. Photo by…

Providing "housing first" without other interventions is a failed solution to homelessness, the Trump administration's top housing official said in a hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday as he defended significant proposed budget cuts. In a contentious Capital Hill hearing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner…

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The country's nonprofit sector — organizations from food banks and homeless shelters to immigrant aid groups — is facing a crisis in the wake of federal funding cuts, advocates say.Why it matters: The nation's most vulnerable people rely on these groups for help — and demand for services has increased over the past…

Opinion warns new Bill lets courts evict families without alternatives, undoing constitutional protections for 3.7 million homeless households. South Africa has roughly 3.7 million families without housing, a number growing by 178 000 every year. The government has published a Bill that makes it a criminal offence to organise poor…

A homeless man sits in the rain smoking in downtown Ottawa on a Friday morning. Photo by TONY CALDWELL /POSTMEDIA Article content Friends, citizens, fellow taxpayers, folks. Meet the new 10-year plan to end homelessness. It’s just like the old 10-year plan but more confusing. Also? Weren’t we already in…

April 16, 2026 3:38 PM ET A socialist city councilwoman led opposition to an ordinance, supported by the incumbent mayor she is running against, that would have cleaned out a homeless camp in a neighborhood where violent incidents have occurred. Democratic Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman was one of for…

MONTREAL, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) today announced that it will donate $500,000 to support two organizations in Winnipeg near the Company’s Campus. The funding will advance programs that help individuals, families as well as Indigenous youth in the Winnipeg area who are currently…

It's going to be interesting to see what happens in California if the citizens (and illegals) there are smart enough to elect a Republican governor. Maybe he'll look into Christopher Rufo's expose on the state giving free "gender-affirming care," including "bottom surgeries," to homeless illegal immigrants. You might think that…