BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) — There has been an outpouring of offers to help a mother and her four-year-old son who 7 On Your Side told you about Wednesday. They were left homeless and living out of their car after the California Employment Development Department mishandled her case. Michael Finney has […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Most nights, people fight and scream outside the small room where Elizabeth Maldonado and her four children sleep—or try to, at least—at a homeless shelter in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Maldonado’s 15-year-old daughter, in particular, fears that if […]
Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City By Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY This article was originally published on Oct 13 at 8:54 p.m. EDT by THE CITY The first time Shams DaBaron realized not everyone on the Upper […]
VENICE, CA — Mayor Eric Garcetti joined Gov. Gavin Newsom and other local leaders Friday to announce the city of Los Angeles was awarded nearly $40 million to create permanent housing for homeless people through the state’s fourth round of the Homekey initiative. “Confronting and ending homelessness is a team […]
Freda and her 9-year-old son visit the Purple People Bridge in Cincinnati. She and her five children have been living in the front room of a friend’s apartment, sleeping on pads of bunched-up comforters. Maddie McGarvey for NPR hide caption toggle caption Maddie McGarvey for NPR Freda and her 9-year-old […]
Choking wildfire smoke drifted away enough by Sept. 22 to reveal a blue sky that morning, when Sam and Jayden Becker arrived at Medford’s Hawthorne Park. It was shortly before 8 a.m. and the siblings intended to film city police officers clearing the public park of a contentious homeless camp […]
(Bloomberg) — For Megan Martin, the tipping point came when she passed several men slumped over the steps of a Broadway church in the middle of the day. “They weren’t sleeping, they were in the throes of addiction,” said Martin, who offers her assessment as an anesthesiologist with a master’s […]
Ian Jameson, left, organized a gathering of tenant rights activists at El Monte City Hall to demand that the City Council pass a moratorium barring all evictions during the pandemic. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Things weren’t great before COVID-19, but at least only about 570 families, hungry, broke […]
A Lebanese couple inspect the damage to their house in an area overlooking the destroyed Beirut port on 5 August 2020: Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images A two-week state of emergency has been declared in the still smouldering city of Beirut as officials admitted that a massive explosion that killed […]
Wendy Brown enters her room at the Cadillac Hotel in Venice on June 1 as part of Project Roomkey. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) An ambitious Los Angeles County plan to lease hotel and motel rooms for 15,000 medically vulnerable homeless people is falling far short of its goal and may […]
Gene Ostrin, 53, has been living in a tent on the edge of Echo Park Lake. Ostrin, who is mourning the loss of his recently deceased partner, is originally from Chicago. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) A large homeless encampment on the banks of the landmark Echo Park Lake […]
A large homeless encampment on the banks of the landmark Echo Park Lake has emerged as a flashpoint in Los Angeles’ crisis of how to treat the unhoused. Over the last year, the encampment has evolved into a commune-like society with a shared pantry, a garden, a veneer of self-policing […]
It began with a few tents pitched on the grassy rise on the banks of an L.A. landmark, Echo Park Lake. Then, last year, more homeless people set up camp. By latest count, 174 tents or makeshift structures were bunched at the north end of the lake and spread along […]
The Sacramento City Council is expected to take a first step Tuesday toward a citywide homeless siting plan that Mayor Darrell Steinberg says will make opening shelters in the capital city much easier. The idea is for the council to adopt a “master plan” — essentially a map marking public […]
The teacher on the screen told Lashay to pick a country, then draw its flag and list three facts about it. “A-l-g-e-r-i-a,” Lashay decided, even though she had never heard of it before. “And the first fact is that it’s beautiful.” The eight children, gathered inside a converted living room […]
LAKE CHARLES, La. – Heading into the Christmas holiday, people in Lake Charles are still recovering from not one, but two major storms: Hurricane Laura devastated the area in August and just six weeks later Hurricane Delta followed suit. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), more than 1,000 people are […]
Frank Fernandez | The Daytona Beach News-Journal Volusia County’s constitutional officers have joined forces to help Volusia County’s homeless students in this particularly difficult pandemic-plagued year. The officers are collecting money and gift cards for food, gasoline and hotel stays for approximately 2,000 homeless students in Volusia County. The charity drive […]
A year ago, Sacramento City Councilman Jeff Harris announced a controversial idea – the city should open 49 cabins for homeless women and children at a North Sacramento lot across from Garden Valley Elementary School. The project was on a city-owned vacant dirt lot, where several homeless people were already […]
Frank Fernandez | The Daytona Beach News-Journal Volusia County’s constitutional officers have joined forces to help Volusia County’s homeless students in this particularly difficult pandemic-plagued year. The officers are collecting money and gift cards for food, gasoline and hotel stays for approximately 2,000 homeless students in Volusia County. The charity drive […]
James Barrett was studying to become a substance abuse counselor. Oscar Young loved to make other people smile. Jerome Henry was a beloved father. They were among the hundreds of homeless lives lost in Alameda, Santa Clara and Napa counties over the past year, at a time when deaths in […]
Downtown Sacramento, abandoned in March by thousands of office workers when the the coronavirus pandemic struck, is like a world turned inside out. Work from home orders that emptied office buildings have helped lay bare just how bad Sacramento’s homeless problem is and how little the city, state and social […]
ANN ARBOR, MI — The Delonis Center homeless shelter in downtown Ann Arbor hasn’t had a COVID-19 case since March when two guests tested positive. While shelters elsewhere have had outbreaks and Washtenaw County has seen several thousand coronavirus infections, the Delonis Center’s seven-month streak is sort of shocking, said […]