Winter in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than ...
Los Angeles voters did their part to address the region’s homelessness crisis by approving Measure HHH last November, calling for $1.2 billion in bonds to build housing for the homeless. Now it’s up ...
Exhaustion wasn’t the official theme of this year’s homelessness conference in downtown San Diego, but it could have been. Speakers representing a range of service organizations returned again and ...
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Outreach teams are working as quickly as they can to find housing for members of Yakima’s homeless encampment, but limited vacancy in the community and multiple layers of bureaucracy ...
As Los Angeles politicians face mounting pressure to combat the homelessness crisis, the City Council is weighing two measures aimed at clearing obstacles to getting more people into housing. But the ...
At 2 p.m., they badly needed supplies. In the last few days, calls had gone out around the state for any and all medical masks, gloves and gowns to be donated to hospitals to help with coronavirus ...
It’s fascinating what a little coordination – and a lot of communication – can do in battling homelessness among veterans. That’s what government officials and social service workers told me Friday, ...
(LOUISVILLE, June 23rd, 2004, 6:30 p.m.)-- A disturbing trend in film making depicts violent acts against homeless people. Now homeless advocates are trying to get these movies pulled off store ...
A Florida police department is mired in criticism after an officer was seen on surveillance video throwing peanuts at a homeless man. The tape shows Officer Andrew Halpin tossing peanuts while booking ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- Police are investigating the arrest of a homeless man after a video showed one officer striking the man as another officer restrained him. The two officers have been put on desk duty ...