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New Law In London Would Fine Homeless £1,000 For Sleeping Outside Or "Loitering"
The homeless people in Hackney, London are facing expulsion from the street due to a new law will allow the police to give out fines and other legal penalties to homeless people who are found loitering, begging and sleeping in commercial places. This “Public Space Protection Order” which was introduced by the council of Hackney will place a fine of £1000 on homeless activities. The order has been met with numerous criticisms...
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Los Angeles passes $1.9bn bill to tackle homeless crisis
Los Angeles, known as the homeless capital of the US, has passed a $1.87bn (£1.29bn) plan to help get an estimated 40,000 people off the streets. City authorities hope to expand homeless shelters and build quality housing over the next 10 years. It is "the most serious humanitarian crisis confronting our county today," city official Sachi Hamai said. LA declared a state of public emergency last year as the number of homeless people soared by 12.4% in two years.
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Living Out of a Van is the New American Dream
You could spend your youth grinding away at your job, paying rent and hating your life, or you could just say $%@& it and move into a van. By David Jagneaux. (Feb. 5)
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L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people living on freeway overpasses in South Los Angeles.
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'Welcome to My Cave.' Abandoned Packard Factory's Lone Resident Braces for New Neighbours
A developer keen to lift Detroit aims to transform one of Motown's legendary automotive plants from an abandoned factory to a mixed-use urban space. But amid the renewal, what's to become of the man who has lived there alone for the past nine years?
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Homeless Are Flocking to America’s Forests, But It’s Damaging the Land
The woods are an attractive option for people who want to live off the grid, or a last resort for those with nowhere else to go. But indefinite camping is damaging forests. By Garnet Henderson.
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Woman raises thousands for homeless man who helped her after she was stranded in London
A woman who was helped by a homeless man after missing her last train home has raised thousands of pounds for him on a crowdfunding site.
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L.A. council OKs law limiting homeless people's belongings to what can fit in a trash bin
The Los Angeles City Council approved a law Wednesday to rein in the tent-and-tarpaulin encampments whose dramatic spread has raised the political stakes of handling one of the nation's worst homeless crises. The ordinance -- a revised version of the law known as 56.11 that was adopted in June -- limits storage on sidewalks, parkways and alleys citywide to what homeless people can fit in a 60-gallon container, about the size of a city recycling or trash bin.
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Australian invents Sleepbus – a bus that provides homeless people (and their pets) a safe place to sleep
Not many people have had positive experiences with buses. The slow moving, perpetually late mode of transport is normally associated with swearing, anger and frantically refreshing iPhone apps to discover that you’ve actually been looking at the wrong route on the wrong day and the next one doesn’t come for another 2 hours. Let’s not even talk about public holidays.
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LA Ordered to Stop Taking Homeless People’s Stuff
A new injunction limits the city's ability to seize and destroy the property of Skid Row residents. By Elijah Chiland.
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The hungry ‘should not be punished’ for stealing small amounts of food, Italian court rules
Who can blame a homeless man for stealing a small amount of food from a grocery store? Certainly not Italy's Supreme Court. Five years ago, Ukrainian national Roman Ostriakov was homeless in Genoa when he was caught stealing cheese and sausage worth less than $5, the Telegraph reports. He was fined $115 and sentenced to six months in jail in 2015, a sentence that he appealed. On Monday, the Italian Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
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2 high-schoolers designed huts for the homeless that cost less than $3,000
These California students engineered cost-effective housing for local homeless people.
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L.A. will convert motel units to 500 apartments for homeless vets
The city of Los Angeles has approved a deal for nonprofit and private developers to convert “nuisance" motels into 500 permanent supportive apartments for homeless veterans. Officials called it a major step forward toward developing large-scale housing for hundreds of homeless veterans. Advocates say about 2,700 homeless veterans remain in the county, despite an intensive drive by local and federal officials..
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L.A. County Is Proposing To Tax Millionaires In Order To End Homelessness
In order to pay for its pricey plan-of-attack to eradicate homelessness in Los Angeles County, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is audaciously attempting to place a 'millionaire's tax' on the November ballot for the voters' consideration. The proposed tax would take a half-percent of personal incomes exceeding $1 million annually countywide, and devote the revenue towards funding the county government's 47-point plan for ending homelessness in Los Angeles. According to a poll conducted for the county government, a whopping 76 percent of L.A. County residents favor the proposed tax on...
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America’s hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US’ hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories. By Carolyn Bick.
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Inside Skid Row’s Spice epidemic, the dangerous cost of a dollar high
The Rev. Andy Bales heads out the glass doors of the Union Rescue Mission in a suit and tie. He rolls his wheelchair toward the sun-baked concrete of Skid Row, then stops and wrinkles his nose...
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Former homeless man's $65,000 in fines quashed by court in Canada
A court in Ontario has agreed to quash $65,000 Canadian dollars worth of tickets racked up during one man’s nine-year stint living on the streets, in a case that has sparked debate on the effectiveness of legislation that criminalises homelessness. Gerry Williams spent years trapped in a cycle of alcoholism and homelessness. Encounters with the police often left him with a battery of tickets for non-criminal offences, from drinking in public to loitering. At the time, he paid little attention.
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Homeless man gives tour of his luxury underpass complete with 'jacuzzi'
When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the world gives you an underpass, make it your home. That seems to be the philosophy of this homeless man who has turned an underpass into his own spot of paradise. Supercool Ceola Waddell Jr, 59, has lived under a road in LA for the last six months. But he’s living in relative luxury with two toilets, sofas, a bed and even a jacuzzi.
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This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them
Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down. [Video with transcript]
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This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
Each night, tens of thousands of people sleep in tent cities crowding the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles, far more than any other city in the nation. The homeless population in the entertainment capital of the world has hit new record highs in each of the past few years. But a 39-year-old struggling musician from South LA thought he had a creative fix. Elvis Summers, who went through stretches of homelessness himself in his 20s, raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding campaigns last spring.
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