Homeless

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…

The potential criminal charges against a U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train might depend on whether a “reasonable” New Yorker would have acted similarly. Neely, a locally known Michael Jackson impersonator who friends say suffered from worsening mental…

Jordan Neely, a homeless busker who appeared to be in mental distress, was put in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway this week — and the public outcry for accountability has grown louder and louder. On Monday, Neely gave what witnesses described as an “aggressive speech” aboard…

Victorian homelessness services have to turn away 96 people on any given day, with 25 per cent of those without a home being those between the ages of 12 and 24. And, LGBTQI people are thrice as likely to have experienced homelessness than the general population.  Now, the state’s peak…