Homeless

The former CEO of a San Francisco homeless services charity will be arraigned on Tuesday on nine felony charges after prosecutors said she stole more than $1.2m in public funds meant to keep people off the streets. Gwendolyn Westbrook, 71, raided the accounts of the United Council for Human Services…

Deputy Mayor G.S. Asha Nath presents the Budget at the city Corporation council hall, in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation Budget for the 2026-27 fiscal envisages an independent housing scheme under which the local body will fully fund the construction of houses for…

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by Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera, Cole J. Kennedy, Grace C. Warren, The Conversation Credit: Milan Cobanov from Pexels On any given night, 60,000 people in Canada will go to sleep homeless. Research estimates that more than half of them have had a brain injury at one point in their lives, most…

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Feb. 21, 2026, 6:00 AM EST By  Hussein Ibish The inaugural meeting of the President Donald Trump-led “Board of Peace” on Thursday was fittingly described as a “show” in the White House readout circulated to the press. It was indeed merely a show. And while it is supposed to address…

Article content As a result, growing numbers of people with developmental disabilities are in homeless shelters or hospitals, said Robin Meyers, executive director of Total Communication Environment, a local developmental services agency in Ottawa. Article content “Locally, we are seeing people with developmental disabilities living in shelters for extended periods…

By: The Canadian Press Posted: 3:17 PM CST Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 Last Modified: 4:17 PM CST Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 MONTREAL - The City of Montreal is changing its approach to unhoused people, promising to tolerate some homeless encampments instead of dismantling them.  Read this article for free: To…

CRUSHED: A truck crashed into a resident's home, causing significant damage. Picture: SUPPLIED SIBULELE MTONGANA & SUE MACLENNAN  More a month after their house was destroyed by an out-of-control truck, a family living in Joe Slovo, Nemato, is still homeless with rebuilding efforts at a standstill.    Around lunchtime one day in early January, a tipper truck crashed into Elvis Magadaza’s house, flattening part of the structure.   …