#homelessness

#homelessness

We don't get to choose how other people make use of our gifts, especially strangers. Since you don't have a relationship with Ron beyond these very generous gifts, you're not in a position to safeguard him. He's not shared this part of his life with you, and you heard about the supposed scam from others, not from Ron himself.

The state's vehicle code currently requires that cities and counties sell impounded vehicles that are worth more than $500 at auction. AB 630, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in October, increased the financial threshold for L.A. and Alameda counties, allowing them to dismantle vehicles worth up to $4,000. That, in turn, spares those jurisdictions from going through the more cumbersome process of auctioning off the vehicles, backers of the bill said.

A year after Toronto staff sent a cease and desist to a man who built several tiny mobile homes for those experiencing homelessness, the city is moving closer to embracing micro shelters with its own potential pilot project. Until Thursday, the city was accepting proposals for a two-year micro shelter pilot project, to be part of the city's 10-year plan to deal with homelessness.

Prevention [of fires] is the most cost-effective tool we have," said Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who sponsored the proposal.

"I thought I was going to die in the street on this day." Moses describes the moment his health deteriorated to the point where he collapsed outside Victoria Station, having lived on the streets for several months. "I was there for maybe one hour on my knees with my suitcase, and crying in a lot of pain. I was broken." Moses now says he has found a "new family" at the Salvation Army church in Chalk Farm but is still trying to find a permanent home.

Kensington, for those not from Philly, has long had a reputation for potent but affordable street drugs. Interstate 95 and the Market-Frankford elevated commuter train line provide easy access to the neighborhood for buyers and sellers, and abandoned buildings offer havens for drug use and other illicit activity. St. Francis Inn Ministries, which was founded by two Franciscan friars in 1979, serves sit-down breakfast and dinner for thousands of people each year, many of whom suffer from poverty, homelessness and substance use disorder.

Opposition says reforms will fuel more homelessness, emigration of skilled workers and delays in starting families

I don't like the shelters, they're too dangerous. You get robbed and beaten.

New York City's shelter intake system for families with children-known as Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing, or PATH-is the single point of entry for parents seeking emergency shelter when they have nowhere else to go. Each year, thousands of infants in New York City are born into homelessness or enter the shelter system within their first year of life. According to the city's own Department of Homeless Services, once a family reaches PATH, the crisis has already begun.

Judge Jeannette Vargas of Federal District Court in Manhattan had ordered the Trump administration to end a four-month suspension of funding, but as the Daily News, The New York Times, Gothamist and amNY reported yesterday, Vargas stayed her own ruling until Thursday to give the piqued president a chance to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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.

I have to say - sorry to keep picking on Matt - but he just said in an interview that the thing he most admires about Gavin Newsom is his record on homelessness. You've got to be kidding, Matt," Hilton said during the forum.

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.

including shifting it from late-night to a morning count, in the hope of avoiding the undercounting problem that critics typically point to. As advocate Del Seymour, a member of the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, tells the Chronicle, the morning count, conducted between 5 am and 10 am on Thursday, will hopefully be a more accurate picture, because unhoused individuals tend to hide themselves at night to keep from being robbed, and that could lead to them being missed.

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.