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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…

HOMELESS SUBWAY SLEEPING VIOLATIONS A growing number of homeless New Yorkers are finding themselves in court after police caught them taking up more than one seat on public transit or lying on the floor of a station in recent months. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: New York City police are taking a…

Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson on Sunday endorsed the city’s Democratic mayor, Karen Bass, for a second term in office. In a video Bass shared to the social platform X, Johnson said that he has known the mayor for three decades and touted her work to reduce homelessness and…

Andy Kropa/Invision/AP Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt says he plans to give homeless camps three-weeks’ notice before the handcuffs come out. “Once you start putting handcuffs on people, watch how many people leave,” Pratt told the All-in Podcast. “If you let everyone do drugs and do whatever they…

When someone calls 911 about a person sleeping behind a business, sitting for hours on a park bench, or wandering in distress, the response in Coweta County usually begins the same way: a police officer arrives. What happens next depends less on enforcement — and more on connection. “It’s not…