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#homelessness

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London's status as one of the world's wealthiest capitals stands in stark contrast to the tent encampments that have emerged across its centre, a visible reminder of the capital's spiralling homeless crisis. Opposite Warren Street Station in Camden, around 20 tents are currently pitched, many elevated on wooden pallets to stay dry. Inside, some contain only sleeping bags and a few items of clothing, while others are more elaborate, featuring furniture, mattresses, and cooking equipment.

There has been much said about the Prop. C categories and the desire of some electeds to move money from housing to shelter. Their idea is typically explained that shelter is quicker to get up and running and less expensive. Neither are true. Housing First is an evidence-based model, has been massively researched and it works across the country. In SF, our supportive housing has a 97% success rate. Regardless of current political winds, nothing solves homelessness like a home. Obviously, building housing takes time and is expensive; however it does save money in both the long run and in the short term. It is worth the effort.

Flophouse America is the unnervingly intimate feature debut of Monica Strømdahl, an internationally award-winning photographer who spent 15 years documenting the impoverished communities that have sprung up in rundown motels throughout the US. Which is how she met Mikal, an energetic, 11-year old boy who's called home the hotel room he's shared with his parents since the day he was born.

Baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of infant botulism was distributed to programs serving homeless mothers and other struggling families in multiple states, but it's unclear what actions are being taken to alert those families to the recall. Formula maker ByHeart Inc., operates a formula donation program in partnership with Baby2Baby, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that counts high-profile celebrities among its supporters. ByHeart's Open Hearted Initiative has donated nearly 24,000 cans of formula to at-risk families since June 2022, according to ByHeart's website.

"We are extremely affected by the homeless. Is no one going to help us? It seems they have more rights than we do."

We look at those who have tried, and failed, to fix the mess Every month when he was housing minister, Eoghan Murphy had to face the media to talk about the spiralling numbers of homeless people in Ireland. As the beleaguered minister made his way down the grand staircase at Government buildings to announce the inevitably grim news, a cabinet colleague muttered the words of the playwright Samuel Beckett in his ear:

Maj. Daniel Freeman, Salvation Army's Silicon Valley coordinator, said this housing fills a needed gap for homeless people in recovery. "Recovery from addiction is never a nice linear process," Freeman told San José Spotlight. "The feeling that we get from the people that come to this program is they just feel a whole lot safer in a much more stable place, because there isn't all the behaviors associated with addictions."

He could have told her about the company that bought Conrad at Concord Mills, the Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment complex where he lived, in March 2022-the one that Kelly says installed a slew of "gadgets" he didn't need before raising his rent by nearly $400 a month. He could have told her about the eviction notices that the company kept filing against him-the ones that came, he says, with an onslaught of fees that virtually guaranteed he'd never fully get back on his feet.

Foothill Theatre Arts is tackling the topic of AI with the West Coast premiere of "Rossum's Universal Robots," running through Nov. 23 at the Lohman Theatre at Foothill College. Originally written in 1920 by Czech playwright Karel Čapek, the comedic play introduced the term "robot," taken from the Czech word "robata," meaning servitude. This adaptation by Bo List addresses one of today's most pressing questions: What can happen if AI goes rogue? The Lohman Theatre lobby opens one hour before each performance for preshow activities appropriate for ages 8 and up. These activities, presented by Foothill College's Robotics Club, Engineering Club, AI Club and the Emerging Technologies Institute include the chance to play chess with a robotic arm, watch a student-built self-driving go-kart in action, and engage with an AI avatar.

It was a cold November morning, and I had travelled with my family to our ancestral temple in a village in Tamil Nadu. My sister's 11-month-old baby was to be tonsured for the first time a religious head-shaving that in Hinduism is a way of discarding the evil eye and removing any negativity from past lives; a new start. My wife drove, but asked me to park the car while she went inside with our son and her parents.

Toronto will open 1,275 additional shelter spaces for unhoused people this winter, but advocates say the plan is not robust enough to get everybody without a home out of the cold. The city will provide more spaces in shelters, 24-hour respite sites and warming centres, open units in supportive and subsidized housing and make surge capacity spaces available, as part of its winter services plan for people experiencing homelessness, according to Gordon Tanner, manager of Toronto Shelter and Support Services.

The target with the fourth edition, built in 2025 with enhanced design and new features, is to deliver another 2,000 units across 25 cities in California and counting. The project that started from Tenderloin in San Francisco has, with feedback from unhoused people, reached a point where it's more than an ordinary backpack. It's a self-sustaining unit that is designed to provide connectivity, shelter, resources, and assistance to the homeless.

"What I feel deeply right now, and it's personal to me, is that the community here needs to have someone on City Council who really gets it and that gets the challenges that we're all facing right now,"

This isn't just a shining example for the South Bay, Freeman said. This is a shining example across the United States of what we can accomplish when we choose to work together. We see the value in changing lives. We see the suffering that's on the streets and now's the time to do something about it.

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, who set up the charity Focus Ireland in 1985, died on Monday morning

Sr Stan was a powerful voice for compassion, equality, and systemic change throughout her life,

Within a week a direct offer was made of a private rental property which was out-of-area accommodation. The report stated Ms X had a few days to accept the offer. A representative of the family highlighted one of the children was sitting their GCSEs that year, the other had special education needs and the council had not liaised with the new local authority about school places for either child.

Once they came down only at dark from the canyons. Now they trot out bold in daylight on sunlit pavement. Still, if you move close, they vanish fast into shadows under the freeway, blocks from the ocean. Up beyond the flammable mansions on over- built lots, where they once burrowed safe, gave birth to ravenous young. Now they watch under scaffolding swinging above sliding foundations. Near the homeless tarps, scattered fires.

The plan includes significantly increasing police patrols and enforcing misdemeanor ordinances, investing in infrastructure and new community events, and taking a more business-friendly brush to permits and fees. Officials also plan to be more aggressive in making sure property owners maintain unused properties. The blueprint tackles many "quality of life" issues that critics say have contributed to lower foot traffic in the city's tourist districts since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A city audit of San Jose's homelessness services released in October found some nonprofits did not meet performance targets or reporting requirements, and the Housing Department failed to require corrective action plans. These findings echo a 2024 state audit which showed San Jose could not identify all of its expenditures on homeless support, nor does it adequately measure the effectiveness of its systems.

She currently receives a €990 HAP payment which hasn't increased since 2017 despite her landlord raising the rent every year - she already works outdoors over 40 hours a week, and has found it financially hard to cope.

The goal of the Chapman University Survey of American Fears is to collect data annually on the fears, worries and concerns of Americans and how those fears are associated with other attitudes and behaviors. This is the 11th year of the survey, conducted for Chapman by market and survey research firm SSRS using a probability-based method. In 2025, participants were asked about more than 65 fears spanning government, conspiracy theories, crime, the environment, the economy,

Erik Hayden, a Bay Area real estate executive who is one of the busiest developers in downtown San Jose, recently opened a new 176-room Marriott TownePlace Suites hotel on West San Carlos Street, and landed $112.5 million in construction financing for a nearby 278-unit apartment complex known as Aquino that will have an overall project cost of $135 million.

As another record for the number of homeless people in our country is broken, there are grounds for fearing we may be coming dangerously close to accepting the situation as a problem we cannot solve.

Police have identified the woman whose body was found in a plastic bag on a Harlem street earlier this week. The remains of Bonnie Schulman-Rice, 35, were discovered lying among a garbage heap near the corner of East 125th Street and Park Avenue at about 6:33 p.m. on Oct. 27. Officers from the 25th Precinct made the discovery after receiving a 911 call about an unconscious woman on the sidewalk.