Homeless

Wandering around Northwest Pasadena, I pressed my face against the window of a dingy pink stucco house at 265 Robinson Road. It was April, 2019, and in two blocks I had passed thirteen bungalows, duplexes, and multifamily homes that had gone through foreclosure in the past fifteen years. Twelve of…

Lake County News-Sun | Nov 29, 2020 at 5:52 PM Volunteers at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Libertyville and staff from Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 get ready to load some of the 1,000 Thanksgiving meals church volunteers prepared the families of the district’s 500 homeless students. (Steve…

Florida deputies have accused a homeless man of sexual assaulting a woman who let him stay in her home for the night.Pinellas County deputies said Clark Caplan, 44, was looking for a place to spend the night around midnight on Thanksgiving when he knocked on the woman’s door in St. Pete…

Residents and protesters in Los Angeles, California confronted law enforcement officers violently evicting homeless and housing-insecure families from state-owned houses at night on November 25 and 26. The families, members of a local housing activist group, argued that they were using the homes to “shelter in place” as Covid-19 cases…

A homeless shelter on Chicago’s West Side is grappling with an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, prompting concerns from advocates and organizations as the coronavirus surges nationwide. The Franciscan Outreach shelter, 2715 W. Harrison St. in Lawndale, had 55 of its 140 guests test positive for the virus last week, according…

JOHANNESBURG - A hailstorm has left many Seshego residents in Polokwane homeless. The local municipality has availed the town hall to provide temporary shelter to displaced families.  READ: Hout Bay fire leaves hundreds of people homeless The freak weather saw golf-ball-sized hail smashing through roofs, car windows and infrastructure in the area.…

TORONTO -- In October, the story of a Toronto carpenter who was building tiny portable shelters for people living on the streets to have a warmer, safer place to stay than in a tent, warmed hearts across Canada. But last week, Khaleel Seivwright received an email from the city telling…

BillionBricks, a Singapore-based innovation studio founded by Anurag Srivastava and Prasoon Kumar, is aiming to build the world’s first community powered by solar energy in the Philippines by 2022, where the less privileged can own and finance their own homes.Read More

As India celebrated its 74th Independence day of August 15, Bollywood stars took to social media to wish their fans on a special day. Superstar Amitabh Bachchan too shared warm wishes for his countrymen but it was a tweet about one Robinhood Army that stood out. Bachchan gave a shout…

TORONTO — Two groups traded barbs at opposing protests in Toronto on Saturday morning, bringing to a head a simmering dispute over buildings in the midtown neighbourhood that have been repurposed to house the homeless. TORONTO — Two groups traded barbs at opposing protests in Toronto on Saturday morning, bringing…