Homeless

Waterloo Region has installed portable washrooms and extra security at the homeless encampment that has been erected in downtown Kitchener. The region was already providing some security and paying for access to the washrooms at the St. John’s Kitchen located across the road from the Victoria Street encampment. “The needs…

A mother of two teenagers facing homeless says she feels “so scared and nervous” about what the future holds for her family.  Ruth and her kids have lived in the same house in Galway for the past seven and a half years but the tenancy is due to end on…

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A homeless person sleeps on the steps of the Downtown Mission on Ouellette Avenue on Wednesday, July 28, 2022. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star A reimagined housing hub proposed to address homelessness in Windsor with dozens of transitional and supportive units could make the city a provincial leader in…

Readers offer their opinions on solving homelessness, fertilizer emission targets and the ongoing danger of nuclear weapons. A Saskatoon judge ordered an independent investigation after concerns were raised over the Lighthouse Supported Living Inc. board approving personal loans for its executive director, Don Windels, his family and other board member…

An average of 40 people a night were told there was no bed available for them in Toronto homeless shelters in the last year and a half, newly released city data shows. And for the first six months of this year, an average of 63 people a night were "unmatched…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers during a meeting that was disrupted by protesters who said it criminalizes homelessness. The council voted 11-3 to vastly broaden an existing ban on sitting, sleeping or…

A blueprint and committee on homelessness will be established to set the direction of the issue which has no specific source of authority and legislation for the operation and handling of the group in the country. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the matter was agreed upon at the first…

Sarah Robertson had lived a charmed life growing up in a grand home in London’s exclusive Belgravia. But an encounter with Co Down conman Maurice Kelly left her penniless and facing homelessness. riginally from Bangor, the conman moved to England after the break-up of his second marriage and reinvented himself…

BC Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay has announced his retirement, saying he no longer has the confidence he can solve the complex problems facing the agency.The Canadian Press The man who has led B.C.’s housing agency for 22 years is resigning, saying several recent incidents of violence against homeless people, plus…