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The hidden cost behind newly cleaned streets is an increase in health risks. People lose vital medical devices-wheelchairs, canes, and oxygen tanks. Many end up farther from the clinics and treatment programs they rely on. That can mean missed appointments, lapsed prescriptions, or untreated wounds - crises that drive people to the emergency room. For people using illicit drugs, it can mean losing contact with street medicine teams-or using alone, which is especially dangerous when trusted friends aren't nearby to administer Narcan.

Richard Quinones was walking his dogs one morning this summer when he spotted a woman in a ditch. She lay on dirt near some trolley tracks in Lemon Grove, her legs partially submerged in muddy water, Quinones, 69, said in a recent interview. He called a non-emergency line. A sheriff's SUV arrived a little later. But the vehicle then backed up and drove off without anyone stepping outside.

The way everyone spoke when the fire happened, they made it sound like we were going to be re-homed,

the RV that serves as an office space for case managers and other administrators lost power due to a generator issue. Sarah Fields is with the deputy director over Public Affairs of the Housing Department. MORE: San Jose's unhoused residents move out of encampment at Columbus Park into converted hotel "All of the clients at that site have been moved from that location to another location together to one of the other emergency interim housing sites the city contracts out," Fields said.

As an assemblymember representing the west side of Manhattan and the CEO of one of the city's largest homeless services organizations, we grapple with this complexity daily-how mental health and substance use disorders often interact to push stable housing further out of reach, creating a vicious cycle that plays out in our streets and subways. Project Renewal has quietly developed and tested occupational therapy programs that address the daily living skills essential for housing stability, from medication management to emotional regulation and job interview preparation.

The current political and financial environment has significantly impacted the organization's ability to continue sustainable programs,

A man was forced to sleep in his car for more than a year after Redbridge Council failed to find him new housing. He ended up on the streets in June 2023 and lived in his car until November 2024, during which time he was attacked on several occasions. Following a review by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, Redbridge Council was ordered to pay him a total of 1,900 in compensation.

You cannot see the above depicted 68 tiny-home complex called Mission Cabins at 16th and Mission streets, because it is behind huge black gates. But it has been there since it opened in April 2024, and did not come without a fight from the neighborhood, as Capp Street residents felt like they'd already dealt with plenty enough blight near Marshall Elementary School.

In the ABC7 Originals documentary "A Mother's Hope," reporter Tara Campbell spends a year with three mothers from three cities - San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento - fighting to save their children's lives. Their children are trapped in a cycle of homelessness, addiction, and mental illness. Every day, these mothers confront an impossible system, relentless setbacks, and their deepest fears, refusing to give up hope.

The settlement, which needs judicial approval before taking effect, calls for Norwalk to repeal its ban at an upcoming City Council meeting, Bonta said in a release. In addition, the city will dedicate $250,000 toward the development of new affordable housing, formally acknowledge that the ban harmed fair housing efforts and accept increased state monitoring of its housing policies. Bonta said that the legal action shows the state will not back down when local leaders attempt to block homeless housing.

It may come as a surprise to many Americans that there's a fixed limit (it's 10) on the number of Social Security cards you can get. Undoubtedly, you may think that it's quite hard to lose such an important piece of identification 10 times in a lifetime, but it does happen, especially to those who don't have access to secure places to store such sensitive materials.

Wayne Gardiner, 58, watched his home of 20 years roll onto the back of a flatbed tow truck in San Jose on a recent Monday afternoon. Then he realized he'd forgotten something inside. He threw open compartments in the bottom of the RV as fast as he could, looking for the pressure-washing tools he uses for cleaning jobs to make extra money.

"Even just before the pandemic, refugees who applied to bring family to the UK did so on average more than one or one years after they were granted protection. Long enough for them to get jobs, find housing and be able to provide their family with some support," Cooper said. "Here in the UK now however those applications now come in on average within one month, even before a newly granted refugee has left asylum accommodation. As a consequence, refugee families who arrive are far more likely to seek homelessness assistance."

The preschool and community center-a $3 million renovation project which just held an opening celebration in early August and will begin operations in early September-fills a void in most homeless housing and service centers. Services for children and families remain very hard to come by, preventing many single parents and families that are unhoused from transitioning to a more stable and secure housing situation. The Betty Bazaar Center is the first state-licensed childcare center to open adjacent to homeless housing.

Yeah I would, Trump replied. Well, they used to have them, and you never saw people like we had, you know, they used to have them, he added. And what happened is states like New York and California that had them, New York had a lot of them. They released them all into society because they couldn't afford it. You know, it's massively expensive.

I feel great! I never thought that we were going to be like this and it was hard. It's still hard, but now that I've got a place that I'm going - thank God!

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has unveiled a new five-point plan to address the issue of homelessness in the city. It include the creation of a new office in City Hall, comparable to what San Francisco has, called the Office of Homelessness Solutions. [KPIX] There was a horrific shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. At least two children were killed, 17 were injured including adults, and the shooter, a man in his early 20s, is also dead. [CNN]

The city will open a new Office of Homelessness Solutions to head Oakland's response to one of its most entrenched issues the thousands of people who live in town without permanent housing. When it opens, the new office will focus on preventing nearly 2,500 people from becoming homeless each year, spending money to rehouse people quickly and build new shelter beds in a city that frequently finds itself short of them.

According to the city, out of 370 people at the encampment, 238 which is 64% said yes to housing. Grace is one of the 47 people the city has moved into shelter from this camp. She has a room at the Bristol Hotel. "A nice shower and a bathtub. So it's luxury - two sinks. I feel very excited and I'm trying to help the rest of my family out here," Grace said.

"I had it for two or three years, a hernia but it never hurt. It started hurting," MORE: San Francisco faces obstacles to 'Recovery First' housing & "People will actually feel pain or bulging in their groin and it affects their ability to walk and stand up for a long period of time," explained Dr. Sandhya Kumar from San Francisco General Hospital.

Homeless families and individuals in NYC shelters waiting for permanent homes won a victory in court on Thursday that requires landlords to hold their apartments while tenant casework is being processed. The ruling upholds a temporary restraining order barring Mayor Eric Adams and the city's Department of Social Services (DSS) from eliminating the unit hold incentive one-month rent payments to landlords that ensure apartments are held for prospective tenants while their housing paperwork gets processed.