Homeless

Churches across the U.S. are tackling the big question of how to address homelessness in their communities with a small solution: tiny homes. On vacant plots near their parking lots and steepled sanctuaries, congregations are building everything from fixed and fully contained micro homes to petite, moveable cabins, and several…

KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine: Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a “tactical withdrawal” to fight from higher…

Nollywood actress Chioma Ifemeludike has stated her position on the ongoing controversy involving the former deputy Senate President of Nigeria and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, who is currently in detention in the United Kingdom on suspicion of organ harvesting.  The Ekweremadus were accused of conspiring to arrange the entry of…

State budget FNQ housing fail: ‘It’s really desperate’There was little joy in the state budget for people desperate for social housing and for other families trying to put an affordable roof over their heads. FIND OUT MORE. There is more to this story But it’s a member-only story. Subscribe today…

Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu officially applied for a kidney transplant visa for Ukpo David, a 15-year-old ‘homeless’ Lagos boy. A letter sighted by Naija News correspondent revealed that Ekweremadu informed the UK authorities that he was taking David abroad for a kidney transplant for his daughter, Sonia…

In March, Mayor Eric Adams gave orders to dismantle every homeless encampment in New York. Within days, “task-force teams” of police officers, sanitation workers, and homeless-outreach agents cleared out hundreds of sites, in all five boroughs. At a string of encampments under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, where more than a dozen…

PORTLAND, Ore. —  Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of northeast Portland. Farris, 51, has spent much of her adult life in Oregon and has vivid memories of this area alongside…

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Updated Apr 14th 2022, 2:57 PM A JURY HAS this morning convicted a man of murdering a homeless man – four years and one day after he attacked and left his victim to die in a Dublin park. Feri Anghel (42), of no fixed abode but originally from Romania, had…

Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, just days after the Tesla CEO said he would no longer be joining the social media company’s board of directors. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Musk, who currently owns slightly more than 9% of its stock and is the company’s…