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"I'm shaking and I feel like I can't breathe. Every time I close my eyes thinking the building burn my son for four, five hours that's...I'm speechless," Huynh said.

Adams emphasized that residents of the South Bronx deserve a "safe, clean and drug-free" commercial corridor, dismissing substandard living conditions as unacceptable.

Rough sleeping has almost doubled since Covid, a damning report found, with Andy Burnham calling on Sir Keir Starmer to make tackling homelessness a moral mission.

"We have completed all the site preparations and grading, water line installation, paving, fencing, site storage and tent pad installation," Loesch told San José Spotlight.

As of January 2024, there are 158,019 New Yorkers experiencing homelessness, marking a 53.1% increase compared to January 2023, showcasing the severe housing crisis.

The median age in Berkeley Hills' Thousand Oaks neighborhood has increased from 37 to 55 between 1980 and 2023, with one-third of residents now at retirement age.

Better data collection, improved transparency and stronger coordination practices are all areas of growth for Berkeley's Homeless Response Team, according to a report released by the City Auditor's Office.

Guillermo Medina Reyes, a 30-year-old Bay Area tattoo artist, is facing immigration court today after receiving a temporary restraining order against ICE, maintaining he has lived in the U.S. undocumented since age 6.

Antitrust policy and housing abundance are natural allies. The pro-housing movement aims to break up a powerful group's capture of the regulatory regime.

Victor Solorzano faced homelessness after a fire destroyed his mobile home, believing squatters in the park were responsible for the incident.

It remains a leading cause of homelessness. Survivors often leave without financial resources, housing options, or a stable support system, facing lasting physical harm.

While the council plans to vote for a one-year outreach contract with WeHOPE, it will also open five hotel rooms for homeless individuals to stay up to 30 days.

"This isn't about homelessness. That's not what's prohibited let alone criminalized in San Francisco and San Jose. It's about the abuse of public space, about encampments and the entire encampment subculture."

Black people in England are almost four times as likely to face homelessness as white people and substantially less likely to get social housing, according to a three-year study that revealed racial and ethnic disparities in access to housing in the UK.

To go home and know you've left them - we've had to tuck women into foil blankets and just say 'see you later' - that can be heartbreaking sometimes.

Nearly everyone who had been living at the camp, which at times had numbered in the dozens, had left by the time the city moved in around 6 a.m.

Kellie Nora Michelle was killed by Angel Ivan Martinez, who drove drunk at 90 mph in a 35 mph zone, crashing into her van while she slept inside with her dog.

The city's sanitation crew seized and destroyed tents, tarps, pallets, shopping carts and many other objects, resulting in numerous homeless encampment cleanups each week.

The Local Government Ombudsman found that the family was living in bed and breakfast accommodation for a total of 75 weeks, far beyond the legal limit of 6 weeks.

Throughout his 55-year ministry, Brother Kevin dedicated himself to the needs of the homeless, overseeing the Capuchin Day Centre’s expansion to provide essential services.