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By JULIA WICK STAFF WRITER SEP. 27, 2019 BAKERSFIELD — In the face of an ever-growing homelessness crisis, cities across California have been searching for solutions, from adding shelters and affordable housing to improving mental health and substance abuse services.But in Bakersfield, officials are considering a more radical approach: They want to put homeless people in jail for misdemeanor drug offenses and potentially for trespassing.The tactic would fly in the face of criminal justice reform over the last decade in California,…..
“Do something; do something” the shelter’s amateur boxing team chants from the back of the chapel. Doc Manny is the youngsters’ coach. In tough neighborhoods downtown, a gym changes lives. At the moment, the youngsters are imploring their elders to throw a punch in their own defense. In one week, the President of the United States visited San Diego and accused homeless shelters of causing homelessness. Days later, the sheriff of Bakersfield up north ducked questions about jailing displaced people…..
Dear President Trump, Homeless shelters do not cause homelessness. Don’t tear them down! Poor paying jobs, the high cost of living, and the punishing cost of a home do drive people onto the streets. Get sick and wind up living in your car. Houses in San Diego regularly cost half a million dollars. Rent a one-bedroom flat for $1200 a month. Earning thirty dollars an hour buys a tent. Here’s a different remedy, Mr. President, Rescind your tax breaks for…..
A White House council report blamed California’s homeless problem on housing regulation and tolerant police practices By GARY WARTHSEP. 17, 2019 7:13 PM A White House report on homelessness says San Diego’s homeless population could drop 38 percent by cutting housing regulations and suggests that shelters are responsible for increasing rather than reducing homelessness. The State of Homelessness in America by the Council of Economic Advisers was released Monday night and stresses housing costs and “decades of misguided and faulty policies” as major contributors…..
BY DAVID GEE SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 Twelve church leaders were charged with a massive labor trafficking scheme that involved forcing homeless people to panhandle as a way of raising money for the church. Turns out the pastors at Imperial Valley Ministries, a non-denominational church in El Centro, California, held homeless people as slaves, threatening to take away their kids if they didn’t cooperate. We know all this because of an indictment from August against IVM’s pastors, including Pastor Victor Gonzalez, which was just unsealed yesterday. …..
9 Sep 2019 -John Lockett A WORRIED medic has warned a leprosy outbreak could spread like a plague among hundreds of thousands of homeless people in the US. Dr Marc Siegel, of New York University, fears it is now only a “matter of time” before the horror disease strikes on America’s streets. He said a combination of poor hygiene, a lack of shelter and access to medical treatment is creating a “perfect cauldron” for the disease to thrive among the homeless. And…..
Police, community homeless group connect with Filipino man Allan Par in hopes of helping him find job, home Swallows flutter out from beneath a bridge over a shallow Winnipeg creek next to where Allan Par has made himself a home in one of the unlikeliest of places. “I like the solitude,” Par says from outside the significant two-room shack he built from scavenged pallet wood, shingles and other discarded materials from surrounding commercial businesses. The building backs onto a parking lot bridge over…..
August 19, 2019 ANNA SCOTT Along a big, commercial street in Los Angeles’ North Hollywood area, near a row of empty storefronts, about half a dozen motor homes sat parked on a recent morning. Inside one of them, 67-year-old Edith Grays and her husband watched TV with the door open. Grays said they’d been there a few days, despite a two-hour parking limit. “Thank God they’re not bothering us right now,” she said. It’s not unusual to see clusters of…..
Ta’leesha Till Ta’leesha Till is a nine-year old fourth-grader from Jackson, Mississippi, whose family just migrated to San Diego, California from the Hospitality State. In the Tills’ former neighborhood on Farish Street, one student out of five is homeless. By law in Mississippi, an education merely has to be “adequate.”In San Diego, Ta’leesha holds out to Reverend Stephen Bentham, the pastor of a shelter named The Settlement, a small picture that she carried with her 1700 miles West, a drawing…..
By Ed O’Loughlin DUBLIN — For generations, the Irish took for granted that affordable, plentiful housing was the bedrock of their economic security and government policy. Not long ago, Ireland had one of the world’s highest rates of homeownership. The last several years have torn up those assumptions, leaving the country in the grip of a worsening housing crisis. Homeownership has dropped, evictions and homelessness have climbed sharply, surging demand for rental units has led to a shortage, and soaring rents…..
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