Homeless

Reporting Highlights Criminalizing Homelessness: An analysis found that under Mayor Tim Keller, Albuquerque, New Mexico has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness. Increased Charges: 2025 saw a sixfold increase in charges for unlawful camping, a jump to 1,256 cases for obstructing sidewalks and more trespassing charges than any year since…

Victoria's peak community housing body has warned the state government's decision to axe promised mental health funding to support social housing renters will heap pressure on overstretched homelessness services, hospitals, and courts. Community Housing Industry Association Victoria (CHIA Vic) is urging the government to restore the funding in the upcoming…

WINDSOR ONT., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026 -- Participants were served bowls of chili at the Downtown Mission following the 14th annual Coldest Night of the Year walking tour in Windsor on Saturday, February 28, 2026. Photo by Pascal Hogue /Windsor Star Article content Windsor’s Downtown Mission raised more than $131,000 during its…

The Peter McVerry charity is asking the High Court to make a man who has moved in to one of its properties earmarked for homeless people subject to an order that he leave before the end of February. The Peter McVerry Trust Company Limited by Guarantee is seeking to join…

Kevin Blondin and Rukshini Ponniah-Goulin stand in front of the Downtown Mission in Windsor on Wednesday, February 25, 2026. Photo by Pascal Hogue /Windsor Star Article content This year’s winter has been unusually cold for Windsor – but it’s been especially unforgiving for those without a permanent roof over their…

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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