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Alice Callaghan: Pushing out the homeless isn't a solution
I'm not even sure the City Council has any idea what they mean. The city's overriding concern is not solving the homeless problem but the visibility of the homeless.
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Katherine reaches highest number of homeless in Australia
HOMELESSNESS in Katherine is reaching epidemic rates with more groups of people finding themselves in stressful situations with nowhere to sleep.
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100 homeless people were given disposable cameras, this is what they shot
Café Art connects people affected by homelessness with the wider community through art, and for its latest project, handed out 100 FujiFilm single-use cameras to people affected by homelessness, asking them to capture simply ‘My London’.
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Accommodating asylum seekers
Germany expects 800,000 asylum seekers to arrive before the end of this year. One of the biggest challenges lies in providing them with suitable accommodation. Some companies specialize in just that.
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Five real life stories that will change what you believe about homelessness in the UK
The figures around deaths of benefit claimants following ‘fit-to-work’ assessments released recently were alarming but sadly not surprising. Benefit claimants have been the victim of a compulsively negative rhetoric over the last five years, where the use of terms such as ‘scroungers’ and ‘skivers’ are commonplace.
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Inside the shantytowns of the Great Depression
Thousands of people took up residence in "Hoovervilles," shack communities across the country.
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Disaster capitalism is a permanent state of life for too many Americans
Hundreds of full-time New York City workers are homeless and in San Francisco bus drivers sleep in their cars to save money: this is a never-ending crisis
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Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Shouldn't Donate Canned Food to Charities
Hunger is a real problem, but canned food drives are a terrible solution. Adam explains why. In Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted. A blend of entertainment and enlightenment, Adam Ruins Everything is like that friend who knows a little bit too much about everything and is going to tell you about it... whether you like it or not.
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Canceled California wedding leads to feast for homeless
After a California couple called off their wedding, the bride-to-be's family decided to turn the $35,000 extravagant event into a feast for the homeless. The bride's mother, Kari Duane, said Sunday that rather than cancel the reception, they invited Sacramento's homeless for a once in a lifetime meal Saturday at the Citizen Hotel, one of the city's finest venues.
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'Bums vs. Billionaires' raises questions at Plano East
It was the fun lead-up to homecoming at Plano East Senior High School. Themed days are often the norm around this time of year. "They would hold up signs and cups and ask for money," said Danielle Miller, a Plano East student who wasn't a fan of "Bums vs. Billionaires" day at the school.But one theme has a lot of people talking. There are plenty of pictures of the event on social media by now. Photos show kids in tattered clothes...
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The Truth About New York’s Legendary ‘Mole People’
Two decades after NYC sought to relocate its infamous tunnel-dwelling denizens, a years-long investigation reveals a few hardy souls still toiling and thriving beneath the city streets. They insist they wouldn’t live anywhere else. By Anthony Taille.
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I found my father living on the street
Diana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an effort to save him, she turned her camera on him. My father introduced me to photography. He was a landscape photographer and I remember my early years sitting...
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McDonald's worker filmed teasing homeless man
A video has emerged of a McDonald's worker teasing a homeless man with a burger before throwing a cup of water on him. Filmed by a customer at one of the restaurant chain's Detroit stores, the video has been viewed over 180, 000 times since it was uploaded on Friday.
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L.A. council declares shelter crisis in effort to help the homeless
With an estimated 26,000 people calling Los Angeles sidewalks, cars and storm drains home, city officials on Tuesday approved an expanded campaign to help the homeless this winter by opening public buildings as temporary shelters and allowing people to sleep inside vehicles in designated lots.
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Giving housing to the homeless is three times cheaper than leaving them on the streets
The final week of January saw an annual ritual in government statistical gathering that few people know about — the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Point-in-Time survey of the homeless population, in which HUD recruits volunteers around the country to go out and try to count up all the homeless people living in America. This year, White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough even joined up, volunteering as part of the San Francisco PIT crew.
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Parenting While Homeless
Could you raise four children in a shelter without spanking? By Olga Khazan.
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Dispossessed in the Land of Dreams
Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home. By Sarah Green.
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Virginia homeless man arrested for underground home
A homeless man was arrested Sunday for constructing and living in a cave that was dug 15 feet underground in Fairfax, Virginia. Yosue Joel Rios, 25, dug stairs that descended to two rooms, according to Fairfax Police Department's Public Information Officer Natalie Hinesley. "To the left was a small alcove that was a little smaller where we thought he was sleeping. The room to the right was a bit larger from floor to ceiling that was about 5½ feet tall, so you could almost stand up."
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More than 103,000 children 'homeless at Christmas' in England
The number of children spending Christmas in temporary accommodation in England has reached a seven-year high, the housing charity Shelter has said. New figures show there were 14,670 households accepted as homeless between July and September, the largest number since 2008. According to Shelter, more than 103,000 children will spend Christmas in B&Bs, hostels or temporary rented homes.
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The Sheltersuit Is A Wearable Homeless Shelter Made From Sleeping Bags
The Sheltersuit is a home that you wear. Designed in the Netherlands for use by homeless people, the suit is a water-resistant, insulated jacket and sleeping bag, which zip together to keep the wearer warm and dry when they sleep on the street. "The Netherlands is well set up for the homeless," designer Bas Timmer told Co.Exist, "but for every person who gets a bed, one still sleeps rough." Timmer was moved to do something when the father of a friend died on the street...
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