Homeless

A 62-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in a voter fraud scheme in which homeless people in downtown Los Angeles were allegedly offered “money and cigarettes” in exchange for hundreds of “false and forged signatures on ballot petitions and voter registration forms,” according to city authorities. The…

The homeless Oakland mothers who illegally occupied a vacant property for months — highlighting the Bay Area’s housing crisis — have inspired legislation to fight businesses that intentionally keep homes empty. Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat representing nearby Berkeley, introduced legislation Wednesday that would allow California’s cities and counties to…

Blair Damon launched a mortgage company two years ago in central Florida to work primarily with first-time homebuyers. Today, BD Mortgage Group has nine employees and offices in St. Petersburg as well as San Antonio and Fort Washington, Maryland.  Blair Damon of BD Mortgage Group and Damon Housing Properties, LLC.…

Did you guys know that African Americans are the fastest-growing vegan demographic? And even though people jokingly say there are no black vegans, a 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that 8% of African American adults identified as vegan. Say whaaaaa? Carol Yepes / Getty Images Many celebrities have used…

Alexey Malgavko, a photojournalist working with Reuters, spent time this winter among the homeless population of the Russian city of Omsk. Life is extremely difficult for those living rough in a city where wintertime-low temperatures can reach –22 degrees Fahrenheit (–30 Celsius) at night. Many survive the cold by finding…

President Donald Trump has veered into politics during a briefing on preparations for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, criticizing the city's political leadership for failing to curtail its homeless epidemicBy ZEKE MILLER Associated PressFebruary 19, 2020, 3:08 AM5 min readLOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday veered…

World's First Opioid Vending Machine Opens In Vancouver (theguardian.com) Posted by BeauHD on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:30PM from the first-of-its-kind dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the…

'Housing is not the end': Former homeless struggle to adapt

Forty dollars in his pocket. That’s all Isaac Langford had when he stepped off the Greyhound bus into the streets of San Francisco in 2010. He’d been living in his own apartment in Des Moines, Iowa, when he had what he calls “an awakening.” He didn’t want to just live…

Radio astronomers at the CHIME array in British Columbia have discovered the first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that repeats on a reliable schedule. This should allow researchers to study this mysterious interstellar phenomenon in a way that has not previously been…