Homeless

A woman has been left homeless after a car slammed into her Sydney home while she was sleeping. March 1, 2025 — 6.53pm Read More

Los Angeles County homelessness leaders last year reported nearly 30,000 permanent housing placements — an annual high for the sprawling region of 10 million residents. Thousands more got into shelter and short-term housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom and local leaders celebrated the progress as evidence that an unprecedented multibillion-dollar public investment…

There were 15,286 people registered as homeless in January, the Department of Housing has announced.  The new record includes 4,603 children, who are growing up in B&Bs and hotels. Housing charity Focus Ireland said it is important that homelessness is not normalised in the public consciousness.  “Ireland is a wealthy…

TWO days before the country marks Fire Prevention Month, an unattended candle caused a fire in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City, leaving 70 families, some 200 individuals, homeless and causing an estimated P1.2 million in damage.   The blaze, which erupted in Sitio San Vicente Ferrer Thursday evening, Feb. 27, 2025,…

International Network of Street Papers secures funds to launch new journalistic training programme aimed at people who have experienced homelessness and poverty Glasgow-based charity, the International Network of Street Papers (insp.ngo), is seeking participants for a new exciting journalistic training programme aimed at redressing the narrative on homelessness and poverty.…

A Palestinian family who fled the war in Gaza are sleeping in a car in Dublin after three council areas rejected their appeal for emergency homeless accommodation. Haneen Alkahlout and her two children, two-year-old Nouralaen and nine-month-old Sarah, joined their husband and father Hazem Malaka here on 9 February on…

ALTADENA, Calif. — As flames engulfed a nearby canyon, dozens of residents in a sober-living home fled to an unoccupied building about 30 miles south. The evacuees, many of whom were previously homeless, watched helplessly as their home burned on live TV. When they awoke on air mattresses the next…

"I am an individual who is deeply concerned with the inequities as we all are, but ill equipped to solve any of them," Tom Waits explained. Tom Waits performing for RAI3's 'The Human Factor'. Luigi Montebello and Davide Rinaldi Tom Waits has added his talents to the final episode of…

by February 25, 2025 Photo Fire ravages homes on Ladd Lane, adjoining Fleet Street in downtown Kingston. Some of the devastation brought by the blaze. This resident tries to help subdue the fire which left several families without a roof over their heads. Firefighters on the scene. A candle believed…

The Trump administration wants massive staff cuts at the federal housing agency. Employees and others say they could end up making record-high homelessness even worse. AILSA CHANG, HOST: All right. And now to the Trump administration's government efficiency team, or DOGE, which wants to see massive layoffs at the federal…