Homeless

A homeless man who had previously been convicted for rape was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for repeating the crime. The Pretoria magistrate's court sentenced 37-year-old Nkosinathi Seepe to 15 years for robbery and three years for assault. The sentences will run concurrently. Seepe raped a 39-year-old woman he…

Homelessness charity Crisis Skylight Oxford is based at the Old Fire Station arts centre and used to run the busy cafe which looks out onto George Street. But the pandemic led to the charity re-evaluating its priorities, and the running of the cafe is now being managed in-house by the…

The project has been looking at the barriers that put so many people with brain injuries out on the streets and what needs to be done to help them. Shannon Lebrun works with people with acquired brain injury to ensure they have quality housing. She is posing with Jason, one…

File photo Each October, the city of Vancouver requests applications from partner organizations and uses a volunteer scoring committee to prioritize applications for funding VANCOUVER – The city of Vancouver welcomes the community to review and provide input on the 2022 award of approximately $2,981,821 in Community Development Block Grant…

LATEST April 6 5:45 p.m. The mass killing that left six people dead and 12 wounded outside bars just blocks from California’s Capitol last weekend was a gunfight involving at least five shooters from rival gangs, Sacramento police said Wednesday. Police said they identified at least five gunmen but there may…

(1888PressRelease) April 04, 2022 - BOSTON, Mass. - Author Bill Selvitelle announced today the release of his first fiction novel, Heaven’s Window. The novel is a deeply touching story about a man, his dog and the search for faith after losing everything. Published by SDP Publishing, Heaven’s Window immerses readers…

“I’m not abandoning anyone. I’m not going to believe that dignity is living in a cardboard , without a shower, without a toilet, living in terrible living conditions,” Adams said at a City Hall press conference Wednesday. “It’s just so inhumane.” But it all seems a bit too familiar to…

LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles has agreed to spend up to $3 billion over the next five years to house some of its 41,000 residents who are homeless, according to a proposed settlement announced Friday. The city has also agreed to create enough shelter to accommodate 60…

A rainstorm that hit Damongo township has injured one student of the Damongo Senior High School and displaced hundreds of students. The storm also rendered some residents homeless. The less than an hour rainstorm on Thursday night, March 31, 2022, ripped off Abu Juan’s House, one of the boys’ dormitories,…

Abramovich is a member of an emergent class: the nationally homeless. ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - MARCH 29: Russian businessman Roman Abramovich attends the peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkiye on March 29, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The English Premier League is…