Homeless

The nights are dark and full of terrors for already COVID-battered restaurant owners struggling to stay afloat or open new locations. That’s because runaway crime and rampant homelessness are forcing them to close early or spend extra money on security to keep their patrons safe, according to interviews with several…

Maj. Bruce Shirran, who was ordained in 1989, says there are always challenges around mental health and homelessness in every community; 'The problems are the same — the faces are different,' he says Maj. Bruce Shirran may be the “new guy” on the block at the Salvation Army Barrie Bayside Mission, but…

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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