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R iot police were sent to clear a group of people out of a former covent in east London on Thursday.The building, on Hardinge Street, Shadwell had been taken over by a group called Autonomous Winter Shelter who said it had been sheltering about 40 homeless people in the building since November 2022.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 by Jo Clifton
City Council last week endorsed adding funds to the budget of the Downtown Austin Community Court and expanding the area served by the court.The court concentrates on providing justice diversion and community services to the city's homeless population.It currently adjudicates a variety of class C misdemeanors committed in three areas: downtown, the area west of the University of Texas campus and parts of East Austin.

It was love at first sight.More than 10 years ago, Andre Demesmaeker, an architect for the Belgium government, was asked to investigate a ceiling collapse at the Palace of Justice, a 19th-century behemoth in the heart of Brussels that houses the country's sprawling judiciary system and has been falling apart for decades.

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A Chinese real estate company was fined $4 million Friday for the lavish bribes that its owner paid former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar as it sought approval to build a downtown skyscraper.U.S. District Judge John F. Walter, who has presided over a series of City Hall graft cases, bemoaned "the crushing weight of corruption" as he imposed the sentence on Shen Zhen New World I.
Its billionaire owner, Wei Huang, is "more than capable," Walter said, of resorting to payoffs once again as he seeks to redevelop the company's L.A. Grand Hotel at West 3rd and Figueroa streets.

Ten days after a federal injunction stopping San Francisco from most sweeps of homeless encampments, the situation is mixed in the Mission: Some unhoused Mission residents say they have still been told to pack up and move, particularly before Carnaval; others say that sweeps have stopped and they have been left largely alone.

Cuando la biblioteca pública de Eureka Valley cierra por la noche, su personal está obligado a desconectar la Wi-Fi gratuita.¿El motivo?Evitar que los sin hogar se reúnan fuera del edificio.La biblioteca, situada en las calles 16 y Pond, lleva limitando el acceso a Internet después de cerrar por la noche desde agosto de 2022, tras las quejas de los residentes y la presión del supervisor del Distrito 8, Rafael Mandelman.

Employees at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Park Slope are looking to unionize, making them the second New York City branch of the book emporium to organize, they announced Thursday.Roughly 30 workers at the 7th Avenue store near 6th Street have already signed authorization cards in order to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, according to the RWDSU, and notified management of their intention to unionize on May 25.

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The Los Angeles Police Department released edited footage Monday from the fatal police shooting of a woman near a freeway overpass in Silver Lake last month, showing officers shouting orders at the woman and then opening fire after she raised what turned out to be a pellet gun in their direction.

The shooting death of a beloved, high-ranking Catholic official rocked both his devoted parishioners and those in the Los Angeles immigrant rights community whom he had served for decades.Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, 69, was killed Saturday afternoon in the Catholic archdiocese-owned home in Hacienda Heights where he lived alone.

Los Angeles police shot a woman in Silver Lake on Wednesday night after she waved what officers described as a gun at them, according to law enforcement sources.The woman was struck in the lower body, according to the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren't authorized to discuss the investigation.

N ew funding from City Hall will help support homeless people forced to sleep on London's public transport through the night, it has been revealed.Mayor Sadiq Khan has said part of his recently announced 2 million package to alleviate homelessness in the capital will be put towards outreach teams on London's Night Tube and bus network.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's top issues-homelessness, public safety, growth and blight-haven't changed since he took office, but tackling them is going to require an aggressive approach.Mahan released his budget proposal this week, which outlines how he plans to allocate millions of dollars to address the city's top problems.

T he total given out in our On The Breadline campaign has hit almost 4 million after more than 1 million was today handed to charities supporting disadvantaged people across London.The focus of this second and final phase of funding has been to help groups disproportionately hit by the cost of living crisis.

A small army of backhoes, earthmovers, garbage trucks, pickups and police cars rolled out of Corie Court in Central San Jose Monday afternoon, after crews spent hours working to clear out a major homeless encampment along Coyote Creek.The city-led effort focused on moving out hundreds of homeless people who live near the creek bed.

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The video seems damning: A person wielding a metal pipe swings it wildly, striking former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani in the head outside a gas station.A firestorm ensued, seeming to bolster critics who say the city has descended into lawlessness.

California is set to audit how San Jose spends its homeless funding, following a request from state Sen. Dave Cortese.The state's Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the audit proposed by Cortese last year.The California State Auditor will review the success rate of various state and local programs-including Project Homekey-in addition to how cities like San Jose have spent state and federal funding to reduce homelessness.

One well-known resident of East Palestine, Ohio, is book author Judith A. Lennington, who has published nearly 20 works of fiction, almost all of which can be found, she says, in the town's library.Lennington, 75, attended area schools from elementary to high school.And before striking out as a writer late in life, she worked for more than three decades in factories a stone's throw from East Palestine.

1683382315 Moment crowd rushes forwards to get place in front of Buckingham Palace Thomas Kingsley6 May 2023 15:11 1683381671 Harry Stratton, 30, a protester, told The Independent: We're here today because we're demonstrating against the coronation.I just think it's crazy that they're spending all this money on a parade when there are homeless people sitting on the steps of Westminster Abbey right now.

The mayor of London has activated emergency cold weather measures with temperatures forecast to drop as low as minus 6C overnight in the south and east of England.The Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) ensures that councils and charities across London open emergency accommodation for homeless people when temperatures drop below freezing.

As temperatures in Los Angeles drop into the 30s this week, the county is providing "winter shelter" facilities for homeless people who need to escape the cold.A winter storm is passing through Los Angeles Tuesday evening with fierce winds of up to 70 miles per hour in the mountains and perhaps a smattering of precipitation.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Roger "Popeye" Schneider, 75, huddled up on a hammock, wrapped himself in a red waterproof sleeping bag behind Best Buy and braved the afternoon's harsh wind, rain and hail.The only evidence that a person was under the bundle: A quaking shoe that stuck out of it.

At least 271,000 people were homeless in England on any given night last year, according to research from a charity bracing for a spike in homelessness in 2023.This is equivalent to one in 208 people and almost half (45% or 123,000) of these were children, Shelter estimates.Of the total, around 2,400 people were sleeping rough, around 15,000 people were in hostels or supported accommodation and nearly 250,000 mainly families were living in temporary accommodation.