#homelessness

#homelessness

But amid the buzz and fanfare, a darker cloud looms - as the booming tech region makes space for these visitors to sprawl, its unhoused communities are being driven further to the sidelines. "It's all about the optics," said Todd Langton, executive director of Agape Silicon Valley, a volunteer-based organization designed to serve unhoused people throughout San Jose. "It's about getting from the clean airport to the nice stadium and checking out the restaurants and hotels downtown."

Over the course four months, Thomas lost his job as a funeral director, began living out of a van out in the desert, and completely emptied his savings. It all started after he began talking to AIs like ChatGPT for advice, and he soon got hooked. It "inflated my worldview and my view of myself" almost instantly, he told Slate. Eventually, he found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after an AI told him to "follow the pattern" of his consciousness.

A native Angeleno, Stewart grew up in the San Fernando Valley and moved to LA's Eastside when she was 20. "I absolutely f**king love this city," she insists. "There's a kind of unified dissonance because it's not really a city as much as a cluster of neighborhoods, but there's unity in that. I like the spaciousness. You can decide how you want to fill it."

San Francisco's work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day - regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,

I grew up in West Baltimore where I experienced homelessness for almost the entirety of high school. For me, philosophy emerged in situations of precarity and uncertainty. Those formative years, spent not so much in a single home as in a patchwork of many, shaped what are now some of my central philosophical concerns: belonging, exclusion, and the status of those at the margins of society, those at the threshold of belonging.

Sunnyvale's Housing Division is offering $18 million in funding this year for affordable housing developments through its Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). Funding comes from local housing mitigation funds and below market rate housing funds. Eligible projects include the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation and/or predevelopment of affordable housing. NOFA application materials are available on the city's housing webpage at https://bit.ly/4a0KCfI. Eligible rental housing projects must be affordable to lower-income households. Eligible ownership housing projects must be affordable to moderate- and/or lower-income households.

Each year, there is typically a reduction in the number of people experiencing homelessness in December due to the Christmas period. Lower figures at this time often reflect people being temporarily offered respite by friends or family. We need to see real, lasting legal rights that ensures every person can experience the dignity, security, and hope they all deserve all year round.

The city had approached DJ Hospitality, LLC, the owner of the now-closed Comfort Inn on Mahogany Way, to secure up to 250 emergency room vouchers for no more than $20,000 for those seeking comfort from freezing temperatures. The vouchers were to be used on an as-needed basis over the next six months. Any unused vouchers would have been refunded to the city at $80 per voucher, a staff report noted.

Each is among a growing number of people - at least 10, as of Tuesday - who died after being exposed to the bitter cold that has persisted in New York City since late last Friday. Their causes of death are still under investigation, but some showed signs of having succumbed to hypothermia. Officials said several victims were believed to have been living on the streets. At least six of the fatalities came early Saturday, as the temperature in the city fell to 9 degrees (minus 13 degrees Celsius).

I met Carole Guscott, a retired former carer, on a clear winter's morning in the Somerset town of Minehead. She was walking her whippet, Gracie, on the way back to her new flat, past the local Premier Inn and on to a cul de sac called Rainbow Way. I knew as soon as I saw it, she told me. I just thought: I can make this place my home.'

Police arrested a man they allege shoved a commuter onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station this week. NYPD officials said officers spotted Ivan Negron, 39, walking through the Union Square station around 12:45 p.m. Thursday and recognized him from surveillance photos the department had released. Negron was charged with attempted assault for the incident, which police said happened around 5 a.m. Sunday at the 36th Street stop in Sunset Park, officials said.

"The current threshold for the City of Boston to declare a cold emergency is one day or more of -10°F or below observed wind chill," Wu said in a statement.

has had many lives: valet parking for the now-shuttered Nordstrom, the site of a proposed development that would have provided 494 units of housing if the city hadn't rejected it in 2021 and, in the early months of the Lurie administration, a " triage center" that police hoped would serve as a one-stop shop for getting people into drug treatment, getting people bus tickets out of town or just getting them arrested more efficiently.

I don't know what the whole situation is. You don't know if there's addiction. You don't know if there's mental illness. You don't know what is at play right now, she said, adding that fundraising wouldn't be enough. There has to be a plan to make sure that they're getting all the proper assistance. Bates appeared on the first two seasons of the sketch comedy show and shared scenes with now-SNL star Kenan Thompson.

On the night of Boxing Day 2021, my dad's body was found near a Cardiff hostel. His death, at 55, was as sudden as it was not. For years, alcoholism had been changing the shape of his heart. He died less than a mile from his old office; top law firm, equity partner. Four miles from our once tight-knit home in a leafy neighbourhood.