Homeless

Pebetsi Matlaila, a former Skeem Saam actress, joined the growing number of local artists who are having difficulty in the entertainment industry in March. Matlaila is one of the few people who has publicly disclosed that she was homeless and living in a shelter in addition to having financial difficulties.…

"In the past we've had people showering at 6:30 in the morning when our sprinklers come on, and we're better than that in Saskatoon." Published Jun 10, 2025  •  Last updated Jun 10, 2025  •  3 minute read A shower trailer and a cooling and warming station are being set…

A Toronto man who has lived in the same High Park apartment for decades says he now fears for his livelihood after being denied permission to appeal his eviction to Ontario’s top court. Andras Henye, who is disabled, partially blind and dealing with declining health, has lived in the same…

N avi Mumbai: A 60-year-old homeless man was bludgeoned to death, his head smashed with a stone while he was sleeping on the pavement under a bridge at Belapur, around 4 am on Sunday. The man accused of the crime was intoxicated, informed the police. A mob of local slum…

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…