Homeless

File photo. The state Legislature passed more than $1.1 billion for affordable housing and homelessness services in its operating and capital budgets for 2023 to 2025 Logan Washburn The Center Square Washington Washington state is spending more than $1 billion on homelessness programs, including affordable housing and addressing historic racism…

CHICAGO: Muslims in America’s only all-Muslim-governed city of Hamtramck, Michigan will likely retain their unanimous control over the Midwest city’s future after voters selected this past week five Muslims to compete in the November elections for three city council seats. On Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, nine candidates including three incumbent…

John Janosko recently moved into a tiny cabin in Oakland, Calif., after the city and the state shut down the sprawling homeless encampment where he had resided for most of the past eight years. City officials consider the shed-size unit — with a bed, a folding chair, a desk and…

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News flash, Anchorage, Alaska: It gets cold in Alaska in the winter. Anchorage has a homeless problem, like so many American cities today. Being in Alaska, Anchorage also regularly sees sub-zero temperatures in the winter, and those sub-zero spells can last for days or weeks. That tends to be a little…

Sometimes it can take a few days or even longer for police to receive a report about a suspected arson fire, a police spokesperson told the Leader-Post. Published Jul 28, 2023  •  Last updated Jul 28, 2023  •  2 minute read Regina Fire and Protective Services investigated a fire at…

People experiencing homelessness in Anchorage, Alaska, may be sent to Los Angeles and other U.S. cities with warmer climates this winter amid a shortage of shelters. Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson told reporters during a news conference this week that plane tickets would be purchased for unhoused people to be sent…

When a handful of individuals convened near the Borella Cemetery in Colombo on July 23, to mark the 40th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s anti-Tamil pogrom in 1983, a few angry young men disrupted the proceedings despite heavy police presence. Members of an extremist Sinhala nationalist outfit — known for its…

Homeless in America’s hottest big metro, Stefon James Dewitt Livengood was laid out for days inside his makeshift dwelling, struggling to breathe and stay cool. Every day this month, temperatures have soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Mr. Livengood says he is careful when he walks through the sprawling tent city,…