Sacramento City Council frowns on homeless tent city, prefers ‘triage center’
As homeless rights activists prepare to drive stakes into the ground for a tent city on a downtown Sacramento lot, members of the City Council expressed skepticism for that model of homeless shelter...
View ArticleMayor Emanuel Announces Pilot To Address Chronic Homelessness With Viable...
(Source: DFSS - Chicago Department of Family & Support Services) Mayor's Homeless Task Force launches pilot seeking to initially house 75 chronically homeless residents and identify more long-term...
View ArticleMayor Emanuel Announces Pilot To Address Chronic Homelessness With Viable...
(Source: City of Chicago, IL) April 24, 2016 Mayor's Homeless Task Force launches pilot seeking to initially house 75 chronically homeless residents and identify more long-term housing solutions for...
View ArticleBrown: City promises housing for homeless living in tent camps
The city of Chicago has picked 75 chronically homeless people living in tent encampments along North Lake Shore Drive for an experiment of sorts. For the first time, the city is proposing to rapidly...
View ArticleCity leaders urge ‘immediate’ action amid San Fernando Valley spike in...
Los Angeles City councilmembers are scrambling to secure funding and other resources to tackle a 35 percent hike in the number of homeless people in the San Fernando Valley. The Valley’s homeless...
View ArticleCan Parking Lots Become a Safe Haven for L.A.'s Homeless?
Nathan Allen, 65, poses for a portrait in front of the motorhome where he sleeps in an encampment near LAX airport in Los Angeles. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson) At night, many of Los Angeles’s parking lots...
View ArticleMetroLink Access Changes as Civic Center Transit Center Construction Begins...
(Source: Metro - Bi-State Development Agency) The Civic Center MetroLink Station in downtown St. Louis will remain open as construction gets underway to expand what is one of Metro's busiest transit...
View ArticleMan stabbed in Tent City homeless encampment
A man was stabbed Tuesday night in Tent City, hours after officials cleaned out a section of the homeless encampment.Related Texas CrimeCast: The latest on plans to close Dallas' Tent CityPart of Tent...
View ArticleOld naval base near Grand Prairie may be repurposed for homeless Tent City...
Related Dallas Tent City shutdown continues but nearly 100 remainTent City residents head to other homeless camps as shutdown continuesDallas wants to send hundreds of homeless in Tent City packing,...
View ArticleACLU asks Dallas police to respect civil rights of homeless people in Tent City
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas said Monday that the rights of the homeless people living in Tent City must be respected while city leaders and police move to close the sprawling encampment...
View ArticleBrown: Homeless get ‘cleaned’ out of South Loop tent city
Cynthia Warner, 56, lives in a tent alongside the Chicago River on a long vacant parcel of land between Harrison Street and the River City condominiums. Construction crews on Monday began fencing off...
View ArticleTent City shutdown continues; residents head to other homeless camps
Tent City residents piled their belongings into shopping carts and suitcases Tuesday morning while crews put up fences to permanently close off a section of the sprawling homeless encampment.Related...
View ArticleAbout 100 homeless at Santa Ana Civic Center are relocated for major public...
SANTA ANA – Rene Barajas received a wake-up call Monday morning unlike any other he’s experienced while living in a grassy area at the Civic Center along with other homeless people. The unmistakable...
View ArticleTiny Houses Creator Fights Los Angeles For City’s Homeless
When Elvis Summers decided to start his tiny houses project, he’s said it is just to provide immediate shelter to L.A.’s homeless, while they get housing or rehabilitation. In 2014 the Inquisitr...
View ArticleCity of Oakland Awarded Federal Funding to Allay Homelessness – Especially...
(Source: City of Oakland, CA) Microsoft Word - 5-11-16 Release - Oakland Receives HUD Funding to allay homelessnessfinal.doc Media Contact: Dana Perez Human Services Department 510-238-3247...
View ArticleLA needs jobs, not tax hikes, to fight poverty, homelessness: Susan Shelley
In 2007, about a year before the economy crashed, the Gallup Poll found that 28 percent of Americans had at some point worried about becoming homeless. It’s worse today. A new UCLA study found 31...
View ArticleLane County releases annual Homeless Point-in-Time Count numbers for 2016...
(Source: Lane County, OR) On Wednesday, January 27, Lane County Human Services, the anti-poverty program for Lane County, along with community partners, conducted a one-night count of people who are...
View ArticleOrange County Unveils FY 2016-17 Recommended Budget (Orange County, CA)
(Source: Orange County, CA) Microsoft Word - PR050916 OC Recommended Budget.doc FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2016 Contact: Jean Pasco (714) 834-7218 jean.pasco@ocgov.com Orange County Unveils FY...
View ArticleSan Francisco homeless camp swept from Cesar Chavez Street
The large homeless camp in San Francisco was dismantled Tuesday morning on Cesar Chavez Street around Highway 101, scattering about 100 street people into shelters and nearby neighborhoods — leaving,...
View ArticleConcord residents can drop ballots at Civic Center (City of Concord, CA)
(Source: City of Concord, CA) May 10, 2016 Concord residents will find it a little easier to vote in the June 7 primary election thanks to a drop-off box at Civic Center for vote-by-mail and absentee...
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