Homeless

TORONTO — The City of Ottawa and the province are in talks after Ontario decided to give the nation’s capital less than $1 million in new money for homelessness. Housing Minister Steve Clark told Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe in a letter on April 28 that Ottawa was receiving a smaller…

By Evan Garcia HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) - In Houston, Texas, a nonprofit group has been in a stand-off with local authorities over their feeding of homeless people in front of the city's library. The Houston chapter of Food Not Bombs, an international organization which promotes sharing vegetarian food with others,…

Last November, Adams, citing a “crisis we see all around us,” announced at a press conference that homeless people with mental illness would be removed from the streets and the subways, against their will if necessary, by the police and other city employees. Advocates were outraged. Norman Siegel, the former…

Having experienced homelessness and unemployment for years, Ron Nessman was leaving a job interview at an Applebee’s restaurant in California when a baby in a stroller rolling into the path of several cars captured his attention. Nessman sprinted into the street, stopped the stroller, saved the child from harm –…

  Last year the dam walls of the Jagersfontein mine collapsed leaving hundreds homeless and infrastructure destroyed. READ: Dam wall collapse | Jagersfontein residents left in the lurch Mashatile visited the area on Tuesday and says plans are in the pipeline to restore what many feel may soon become a ghost…

U.S.|Phoenix to Start Clearing Sprawling Downtown Homeless Encampment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/us/phoenix-homeless-encampment-the-zone.html Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. The NewsPhoenix officials will begin clearing one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments this week in a downtown…

Shocking new images show Portland's mounting homeless crisis as encampments take over streets and sidewalks - and fed-up residents want the city to take action.  Local authorities in Oregon are also considering calling in the National Guard to help with Portland's homeless issue - while residents reveal they now no longer…

Ruele Okeyo, 26,  is the U=U(Undetectable = Untransmittable) ambassador for Kenya in Africa. U=U means that people with HIV can achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load by taking ARVs daily as prescribed and cannot sexually transmit the virus to others. Ruele also runs a safe house for LGBTQ+ youth…

Seven people have been killed and 10 others were injured after a car plowed into a crowd outside a shelter serving migrants and homeless people in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday, and investigators believe it may have been intentional, according to authorities. The car careened into the crowd of people who…

Last year, after Mayor Eric Adams stepped up sweeps of homeless encampments in New York, Johnny Grima became one of the most visible homeless activists in the city. Grima was a resident of Anarchy Row, a holdout encampment on Ninth Street, off Tompkins Square Park, and he was a voluble…