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,"
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,
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.
Akaberi, in part, got people talking about him, because of his stunt a decade ago, in which he wore his outlandish get-up to Brooklyn court. It included a "shirt" fashioned from newsprint pages covered in the holy Hebrew writings of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson - and a hat made from a print-out of the original seven commandments given to Noah. Akaberi wore the peculiar outfit as apparent retaliation because he was banned from reading Talmudic quotations at a pre-trial hearing.
Selfies and a chilling video showing three teenagers laughing and singing on the night they killed a homeless man helped police place them at the scene and secure their convictions. Marks was struck with a car bonnet before being chased down, stamped on, and beaten with a gin bottle, causing bleeding on the brain. Officers found Marks with severe facial and arm injuries near King's Cross Station at around 5.25am. He died in hospital on September 14, five weeks after the assault.
Your article (Looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Sunday? Time to thank a farsighted builder from Kent, 25 October) misses the main point for many people. The extra hour of darkness in the afternoons outweighs the extra morning hour of light. Psychologically, you can deal with darker mornings when you know it's going to get light later, whereas those of us with seasonal affective disorder feel miserable at the prospect of endless hours of darkness from mid-afternoon onwards. Paul Highfield Sheffield
Abel Barrera was homeless growing up in Redding. Gaspar, who was a classmate of Mike Barrera, was homeless and living in a car with his mother before being taken in by the Barrera family. Given this history, the Barreras in 2013 conceived of the Bernal Scream, a free show in the backyard of the family home on Bernal Road in San Jose for low-income families who couldn't afford other haunted attractions.
Abel Barrera was homeless growing up in Redding. Gaspar, who was a classmate of Mike Barrera, was homeless and living in a car with his mother before being taken in by the Barrera family. Given this history, the Barreras in 2013 conceived of the Bernal Scream, a free show in the backyard of the family home on Bernal Road in San Jose for low-income families who couldn't afford other haunted attractions.
it is sad that such a large sum of money has been spent, though he added it is necessary because of the disastrous impact that we saw with the build-up of tents in the past.
New York City's three mayoral contenders had a fiery debate on Wednesday night in their final televised face-off less than two weeks before voters decide the city's next leader on 4 November. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa participated in a tense and often chaotic discussion. The current mayor, Eric Adams, who dropped out of the race weeks earlier, once again did not attend.
Mission Hunan, a Chinese restaurant just steps from the 16th Street Mission BART plaza, is closing after 40 years, a server at the restaurant confirmed to SFGATE. The restaurant's building at 2960 16th St. is set to be demolished to make way for a new affordable housing project. Mission Hunan's final day of service will be Oct. 31, the server said.
A downtown Oshawa property manager says she risks losing her family business, located opposite a non-profit agency that helps people who are homeless, amid ongoing issues on her property including drug use, vandalism and public urination. Lord Simcoe Place on Simcoe Street S. has been in Cindy Malachowski's family for generations. But she says the building is bleeding tenants and has its highest vacancy rate in some 55 years.
On a soggy morning in Gilroy, Greg Porter lifts his cat and puts her inside the tent where he lives to protect her from the rain. The drops pattering on his tarp mark the first signs of the rainy season as he ducks into the flap and pulls out a multicolored flyer with bold red capital letters: VACATE.
On Monday morning, a homeless man sat in front of the county courthouse in Malibu, where he sleeps each night. In front of him was a small, green propane tank affixed with a torch, which he said he uses to cook and form wood pipes for tobacco and cannabis. A short walk away is Legacy Park, an oasis of coastal prairies, bluffs and native woodlands.
The much-needed housing, which will be named in honor of disability rights activist Judith Heumann, is expected to be up and running by the start of the 2027-28 school year, university spokesperson Kyle Gibson said. What was once a green 2.8-acre lot known for being a hub for political activism and gathering place for unsheltered residents now features an 11-story concrete structure currently being wrapped with a prefabricated facade.
Across cities and towns in the U.S., shelter is increasingly out of reach ( Harvard, 2025). The nation is currently short at least two million homes ( deRitis et al., 2025), and many individuals with roofs over their heads are at risk of becoming unhoused; half of renters nationwide are cost-burdened by rent, and a quarter spend at least 50 percent of their income on rent. These numbers are even higher for racially marginalized households ( U.S. Census Bureau, 2024).
"Having that haven, a roof over your head-it is the most important thing in the world." That's how Richard, the first resident of the Fulton Community Reentry Center in the Bronx, described what it felt like to walk through our doors after leaving prison. Recently, Fulton reached a significant milestone: more than 75 formerly incarcerated men have moved into permanent homes and reintegrated with society as productive community members.
"those who received these AI generated images and commentary sincerely believed that there was an actual intruder in their home and called 9-1-1 to report a burglary or breaking and entering in progress which necessitated an immediate police response."
When people talk about ending homelessness, the conversation almost always starts with housing. And for good reason-without a safe, stable home, it's nearly impossible for anyone to rebuild their life. But there's another piece of this crisis we don't talk about enough: health. You can't recover from homelessness if you can't access health care. You can't stay housed if an unexpected medical bill wipes out your savings. And right now, that fragile balance - between health and housing - is under serious threat.
