Homeless

VANCOUVER — Seventy-one-year-old Roger Oake sat on a bench outside the Union Gospel Mission shelter in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after breakfast. He had been sleeping at the shelter for about a month "this time" and said that after several years of homelessness, walking "the beat" during the day when the…

A Sinn Féin TD has accused the Government of ‘not wanting to solve the housing crisis’, after new figures reveal thousands of vacant council homes across the country.  The figures released to Cork North-Central TD Thomas Gould reveal that there 2,749 empty council homes, all at a time when there…

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The grief-stricken mother of the three Washington girls who were allegedly killed by their homeless father said their deaths could have been prevented if police had listened to her pleas to issue an Amber Alert when they first went missing. Whitney Decker said she knew her daughters — Paityn, 9,…

Some nine million people in the U.S. get federal housing assistance. Most are elderly or disabled, and would be exempt from a proposed rule regarding time limits or work requirements, according to a HUD employee familiar with the plan. But millions of others could still face harsh consequences. Mario Tama/Getty…

A fire broke out on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 4, in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums, leaving about 100 families without homes. Videos seen by  Kenyans.co.ke showed the iron sheet houses engulfed by fire as it razed through the houses. According to reports, the fire started at around 2pm…

A “tired” California dad out on a routine walk with his newborn baby had the police called on him by a concerned neighbor, who feared he had kidnapped the child. Chapman Hamborg, 33, was walking around his neighborhood in Huntington Beach with his daughter Florence in a baby wrap carrier…

A desperate search is underway in Washington state for three young sisters who were last seen with their troubled and homeless father as part of a planned visitation, cops said. Police are searching for Paityn Decker, 9, Evelyn Decker, 8, and Olivia Decker, 5, who were last seen shortly after 5:30…

Tracy Hailwood, 54, has cared for her severely disabled daughter Stacey for 33 years but says she has been left homeless after the DWP told her to 'just get a job' Helena Vesty NHS, social care and patients reporter and Shaurya Shaurya 22:36, 02 Jun 2025 Tracy Hailwood at her…

Jarris Charley says he didn’t believe in jobs when he was growing up on the line between Boston’s Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods. The people he knew who had legitimate jobs, including his mom, didn’t find much success. Everyone in his community lived check-to-check and paid rent. The drug dealers were…