Homeless

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…

An unhoused person is covered in a sheet outside of the Mustard Seed downtown shelter earlier this week. Photo by Michelle Berg /Saskatoon StarPhoenix Article content A little more than a year ago, two candidates for Saskatoon mayor announced their bids on the same June day. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED…

Eleven people were hospitalized after being stabbed at a homeless services provider in downtown Salem, Oregon, on Sunday night, police said. A suspect was in custody after the violence at 7:15 p.m. at Union Gospel Mission, Salem police spokeswoman Angela Hedrick said. The injured were taken to Salem Hospital, Hedrick…

What if the solution to homelessness wasn’t more shelters, but fewer evictions? In Santa Clara County, a new model backed by tech money and data-driven strategy is quietly redefining how a community tackles housing insecurity. Its method is simple: Catch families before they fall. Working directly with landlords, a county…

City workers clear garbage and personal belongings of homeless people on Murray Street in Ottawa Friday. Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia Article content Tents were taken away by City of Ottawa staff as they dismantled several homeless encampments in the Byward Market on Friday afternoon. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR…

Article content And, once again, the count showed that homelessness is disproportionately affecting Indigenous people, who make up less than 12 per cent of Saskatoon’s population, but accounted for 81 per cent of those identified in the homeless count. Article content Remarkably, that’s actually a decrease from the two previous…

THE homeless man who befriended rough sleeper British tourist Hannah Almond in Peru has tragically died just days after she was found. The 32-year-old from Grimsby slept rough under the Belén Bridge with the elderly man and was even filmed trying to stop cops from taking him away after locals…