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Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track. "While we have heard several reports that we are working to verify, we don't have an exhaustive list or count of all incidents involving people experiencing homelessness," wrote Melissa West, staff attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow with the Law Project of the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH), over email Monday.

The combination of a significant slowing of residential house building and an influx of new student accommodation in a North London borough risks creating an unbalanced community, the local authority has warned. Brent Council is proposing a pause on all new purpose built student accommodation (PBSA), particularly in Wembley, due to fears it will inhibit its plan to address local housing shortages and no longer provide a balanced and mixed community.

UC Berkeley Professor Omar M. Yaghi is among three recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, for his work in discovering metal-organic frameworks that can capture gases, like carbon dioxide. This is a second Nobel win this week for UC Berkeley, with Professor John Clarke taking the prize in physics on Tuesday. [Associated Press] The City of San Jose is facing property loss complaints from homeless residents who say their belongings were destroyed or disposed of amid encampment clearings.

West Valley cities - we're still these hidden pockets," Venkatraman told San José Spotlight.

In one of the four property loss complaints filed just last week, Melvin Cuc, a former resident of the Columbus Park encampment, stated that the city destroyed all of his belongings while he was hospitalized for 18 days in August, despite receiving a notice for his items that prevented their removal until Sept. 4. Cuc's complaint also alleged that he saw employees from the city and one of its contractors remove similar notices from the belongings of other residents while no one was around,

One person died and another was injured after they were struck by a garbage truck in Lowell early Tuesday morning, according to officials. The garbage truck backed into a man shortly before 5 a.m. on Spring Street, the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office and Lowell Police Department said in a joint statement. The man died at the scene, officials said.

Packed in a nearby church's sanctuary, residents and business owners of Somerville's Davis Square gathered for a neighborhood public safety meeting Monday night, anxious to hear how the city is planning to address a seemingly growing homelessness crisis. However, some residents felt unheard. "Could you please do something for us," one woman said, "and stop them from shooting up outside the day care?" Over the past two years, Davis Square's Statue Park and Seven Hills Park have seen a surge in their homeless populations.

Palo Alto's got a problem. People are parking their RVs on city streets. They're dumping their waste in the street gutters, which flows through the storm sewers and into the Bay. It's happening in residential neighborhoods and business areas. Now people are trying to solve the problem. In August, City Council's Policy and Services Committee proposed the following: 1. Requiring permits for RVs on some streets 2. Banning trailers and broken-down RVs from other streets 3. Sweeping and cleaning up streets more often

The people in this meeting have all been chronically unhoused typically living outside for eight to nine years with significant addiction or mental illness. They are among the hardest to help, and that's exactly who the Village has targeted since it opened two years ago. "Once you've forgotten how to work, forgotten how to engage with other people, forgotten how to solve human problems, forgotten how to manage finances, it takes a lot of work to restore some of those abilities," says Joseph Grenny, a co-founder of The Other Side Village.

Revenue chasing Paul Howard and his partner Una McClean for judgments totalling over €3m

"Our practitioners serve some of the most tough neighborhoods impacted by addiction, poverty, homelessness and crime in San Francisco," he said. "They are trained with their lived experience ... to bring more peace, safety and cleanliness on the streets. It's an unfortunate reality that, yes, we do experience hate and sometimes violence in the line of work that we do."

"This theft has made it extremely difficult for us to continue our weekly outreach,"

In early August, data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority showed only two out of 88 beds at an East Hollywood homeless shelter were occupied, a shockingly low rate in a county where some 47,000 sleep on the streets. There's just one big problem, according to the nonprofit PATH, which operates the shelter. The data were dead wrong. Path's internal data showed 84 beds were filled.

"In those years, I stayed in the George V [hotel] in Paris. I went to New York first class. I really had a great time spending that money," he tells Katie Byrne on the latest episode of the Money Talks podcast "I loved it, but I spent it with the faith that there'd be more money. I was never going to sit on a suitcase of money out of fear."

I loved it, but I spent it with the faith that there'd be more money. I was never going to sit on a suitcase of money out of fear.

It's encouraging, but it's also ironic to see these positive results, even as a lot of the funding that made it possible is now under threat.

Last month, the city started sweeping Columbus Park where roughly 370 people lived in tents, vehicles and makeshift shelters. By Sept. 15, the park had been completely cleared and the city installed fences to prevent re‑encampment. The city moved about 200 people from the park into motels recently converted into homeless housing, but some people chose not to give up their RVs. A tight-knit community of about 40 Latino residents relocated their 21 RVs to an empty lot owned by Kellanova, formerly known as Kellogg.

Mountain View's homeless population spiked 56% over the past two years with the vast majority of unhoused people residing in vehicles, according to a report released by Santa Clara County this week. The number of homeless individuals in Mountain View jumped from 562 in 2023 to 879 in 2025. Countywide, the homeless population also increased but less steeply, growing 8% from 9,903 individuals in 2023 to 10,711 individuals in 2025.

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Steve Harvey is everywhere. He hosts Family Feud (including its celebrity and African editions), he stars in his own courtroom comedy show Judge Steve Harvey, and runs a four-hour weekday radio program. Add to that a clothing line, investments, a foundation, and a sprawling resume of other venues, and it's clear Harvey has built his own personal empire. But it wasn't always glitz and success for the now 68-year-old.

"I'm so happy I don't know what to say," he said. "My life has just begun again. Before I didn't have hope, but now by God's grace I can move forward with my life."

Mission Local readers first met Church in 2019. It was a redemptive tale of a woman who had spiraled into the darkest corners hidden in plain sight in San Francisco. An underaged sex worker walking the streets at 14. An alcoholic paying for three-dollar bottles of vodka with small change. A heroin addict. A barefoot homeless woman washing her hair in the gutter. A " High User of Multiple Services " with a rap sheet six pages long.

GOV. TIM WALZ: And the attacks we see, we see a Fox News host on air talk about killing homeless people. And this week we saw eight homeless people shot in Minneapolis. And so, the consistency around this certainly isn't there, but none of this surprises me with Donald Trump. But, Chris, I think the thing I am concerned about is this is not overreacting. This is our responsibility now. Getting a democracy back after it's gone is a lot harder than defending it now.

BRIAN KILMEADE: So Kimmel later went on to say that Trump was grieving over Kirk's death like a four-year-old mourns over a goldfish. More on that later. The point is that Kimmel's comments went way too far for some television executives. Not for me, not for you, but for them. And they turned up the heat on Kimmel, the host, to calm down the rhetoric.

And so this piece of art you see behind us, we wanted to have a place in an alley like this where people who are on the street can come anytime of day or night to grieve those who they've lost. This is a memorial wall for those types of people. And we think it's really important. And the hand prints are there to say: We are here, we have been here.

"I'd rather sleep out here until I can find a proper place," said Cece Bella Cohen, one of about a dozen residents still living at the encampment as of Tuesday who were waiting to see if they'd be forcibly removed.