Homeless

A sign saying "Home Sweet Tent" is written on a piece of Styrofoam that lays on the ground before Regina police issued a warning to clear a makeshift encampment at a private empty lot next to Carmichael Outreach on June 17, 2025. Photo by KAYLE NEIS /Regina Leader-Post Article content…

Victoria Adams, 37, was murdered inside her west London flat by a homeless man she had invited to stay just three days earlier. She suffered fatal head injuries after being struck with a mallet multiple times. The man, 39-year-old Apapale Adoum, has pleaded guilty to her murder and awaits sentencing.…

Over 100 houses were demolished on Monday in the predominantly Roma-ethnic Lozenets district of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, in what authorities described as an operation against illegally-built housing.  The demolition affected all homes in the area, from small dwellings to three-storey houses. Some residents said they had nowhere to go, and…

Council to Homeless Persons Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) has urged Premier Jacinta Allan and Opposition Leader Brad Battin to back a bill to make housing a human right in Victoria. The Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Amendment (Right to Housing) Bill 2025 is set to be voted on…

Key Points Of the 78,092 children to access specialist homelessness services in 2023-24, 13,301 of them were unaccompanied. Statistics on unaccompanied homeless children in Australia have not previously been isolated and reported. Advocates want a national action plan focusing on identifying children at risk of exiting the home. New figures…

A family facing homelessness have said the system “feels rigged” against them.  Evan Kavanagh, his wife and three daughters moved into their current Clondalkin home seven years ago.  On Lunchtime Live , Mr Kavanagh described his children as having been “raised in the house” and said it has become a…

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The Pentagon is drawing up plans to deploy troops in Chicago as President Donald Trump moves to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, a step officials say could be extended to other US cities, says report. The US defence headquarters, Pentagon, is preparing plans to deploy the military…

The Hon Claire O'Neill MP, Minister for Housing, Homelessness and Cities Senator The Hon Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water The Albanese Labor Government is taking decisive action to cut through the red tape and delays in approvals that are holding up the construction of more homes. This…

US President Donald Trump has said that he is aiming to crack down on crime in several American cities, and he has his eyes on Chicago in Illinois, a Democrat-led city, next. Calling the work done by the National Guard in Washington, DC, “incredible,” Trump said that it would work…