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Apple commits $2.5 billion to combat housing crisis in California
Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California. As costs skyrocket for renters and potential homebuyers — and as the availability of affordable housing fails to keep pace with the region’s growth — community members like teachers, firefighters, first responders and service workers are increasingly having to make the difficult choice to leave behind the community they have long called home.
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Homeless denied social housing for being too poor, study says
Research shows landlords ‘screen out’ homeless applicants deemed financial risk
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A church lured in homeless people — then locked them in houses and forced them to panhandle, feds say
For six days a week and nine hours a day, the victims were forced to hand out Pixie sticks and religious literature in exchange for donations, all of which they turned over to the church, prosecutors say. Then, they were locked inside their homes.
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Oregon Woman Turns School Buses Into Tiny Homes for Working Homeless Families
Julie Akins, a freelance journalist based in Ashland, Oregon, began a life-changing road trip in August 2016. Off and on over the course of the next two years, she pitched her tent and lived among homeless people from Portland to Denver.
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The New American Homeless
Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed letter from her landlord in the mailbox. She felt a familiar panic as she began to read it. For nearly a year, Goodman and her six children—two of them adopted after being abandoned at birth—had been living in a derelict but functional three-bedroom house in the historically black Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta.
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LGBT people 'being made homeless due to religion'
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds. That's according to research by the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), which supports young people who are at risk of homelessness. The charity says three in four LGBT people are rejected by their families - and 45% of that number are from a faith background.
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Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: The crisis and a path forward
San Francisco Bay Area homelessness is cresting. Coordinated efforts among governments, nonprofits, and the private sector could stem the crisis and drive progress.
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'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
It was a beautiful winter day in San Francisco, and Zoe was grooving to the soundtrack of the roller-skating musical Xanadu as she rode an e-scooter to work. The 29-year-old tech worker had just passed the Uber building when, without warning, a homeless man jumped into the bike lane with his dog, blocking her path.
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Homeless people wearing barcodes to accept cashless payments
Homeless people are wearing barcodes around their necks in an attempt to increase donations in a cashless society, under an Oxford University backed initiative.
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Nevada County Directs Nearly $2 Million in Pot Revenue to Help the Homeless
Clark County, Nevada — home to Las Vegas, as well as most of the state's population — is making good on its promise to use legal cannabis revenue to fund programs designed to help disadvantaged residents. This Tuesday, Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to direct nearly $1.8 million in cannabis business license fees to create new housing opportunities for the homeless and people suffering from medical problems.
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Homeless population jumps by thousands across the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco, like other cities and counties across the Bay Area, reported Thursday that homelessness has increased dramatically over the last two years.
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Pearl Jam announces $10.8 million to combat homelessness
Pearl Jam’s Home Shows, an initiative aimed at bringing the community together to fight homelessness, has raised $10.8 million, which will be distributed to nearly 100 area organizations in the coming months. A portion of the money came from ticket and merchandise sales from the band’s much-anticipated Home Show concerts at Safeco Field in August, but most of it came through philanthropic donations.
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Divine intervention: Vatican aide defies police to restore power to homeless shelter
Pope Francis aide, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski crawls into manhole to return power for hundreds of homeless in unused state-owned building
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Homeless man faces sentencing in $400,000 GoFundMe scam
The homeless veteran who admitted to conspiring with a New Jersey couple in a GoFundMe scam that raised more than $400,000 is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.
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In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash
Three blocks from Mark Zuckerberg’s $10 million Tudor home in San Francisco, Jake Orta lives in a small, single-window studio apartment filled with trash. There’s a child’s pink bicycle helmet that Mr. Orta dug out from the garbage bin across the street from Mr. Zuckerberg’s house. And a vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer, a coffee machine — all in working condition — and a pile of clothes that he carried home in a Whole Foods paper bag retrieved from Mr. Zuckerberg’s bin.
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Taken for a Ride: How Ambulance Debt Afflicts the Extreme Poor
I was in total shock, strapped to a gurney in the back of an ambulance. I had been repeatedly abducted, beaten, and sexually assaulted by a transient man over a period of a year. Completely defenseless and traumatized, I was later groped by a series of predatory homeless men. Defeated, my extreme circumstanceselicited an extreme response: I began lying naked on a patch of grass near a busy street in Salt Lake City.
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Housing vouchers can save people from homelessness. But landlords may not accept them
Low-income households can wait more than 10 years for a voucher that subsidizes rental payments to private landlords. But in a drum-tight Southern California housing market, those lucky enough to get a voucher increasingly can’t find a landlord willing to take it.
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3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here’s how they did it
Nine more have ended veteran homelessness. It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services. Now it’s launching in 50 more cities.
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A $21,634 bill? How a homeless woman fought her way out of tow-company hell
When calculating your bill, tow companies are sticklers for marking the passage of time. So let’s note for the record that when it was finally over, it took Amanda Ogle a total of 369 days, 22 hours and 51 minutes to extract her car from tow-company hell. It also took two court orders. And it leaves unresolved the largest towing bill I’ve ever seen — for $21,634.
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Washington, D.C., restaurant provides free meals for the homeless
A restaurant owner is Washington, D.C., is feeding people for free. No judgement. No questions. If you can't pay, it's OK. Nicole Killion reports.
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