May 12, 2022 Austin hotel purchased for $9M to become homeless shelter is vandalized: 'Nearly every door is bashed in' The City of Austin bought a Candlewood Suites hotel for $9 million last year with plans to turn it into a homeless shelter, but the building was vandalized in recent months before the necessary renovations could take place, City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly said at a press conference on Thursday.
May 9, 2022 Dozens of homeless people seen using Seattle public transportation as homeless shelter A video shows dozens of people on Seattle's Sound Transit using the light rail as a reported homeless shelter.
May 5, 2022 Seniors living on the streets: Rising rents, inflation push more elderly people out of their homes More seniors are living on the streets. Homeless agencies across the country say it's an alarming new trend because of rising rents and inflation.
May 3, 2022 Austin city government gives update on homeless crisis one year after residents voted to reinstate camping ban Exactly one year after Austin residents voted to reinstate a camping ban that makes it illegal to camp around downtown, the city's Homeless Strategy Division gave an update on how the capital of Texas has faired.
May 1, 2022 Autopsy for teen girl found dead in San Francisco homeless district reveals disturbing new details An autopsy for 16-year-old Victorria Moran-Hidalgo, whose half-naked body was found in a San Francisco street early one February morning, showed she had several drugs in her system, including fentanyl, but the manner of her death was ruled as undetermined due to evidence suggesting someone might have sexually assaulted the teen.
April 29, 2022 Homeless encampment in Oakland goes up in flames A large fire was sparked at a homeless encampment in Oakland, California Thursday night. Oakland fire officials said the fire started around 7:50 p.m. local time underneath the Lake Merritt Boulevard overpass near the Kaiser Convention Center in the city's downtown area. No one was injured in the fire.
April 28, 2022 Assaults, fires, roach infestations in San Francisco's hotels for homeless program revealed Over 100 people fatally overdosed in San Francisco hotels used to house homeless people between 2020 and 2021, Seattle radio host Jason Rantz told Tucker Carlson on Thursday.
April 27, 2022 Boston police up patrols for notorious homeless open-air drug market after 5 stabbings in 3 days Boston police said they are increasing patrols in the notorious Mass and Cass neighborhood following reports of at least five stabbing incidents in the past three days.
April 26, 2022 LA homeless director resigns over pay dispute as tens of thousands on streets: 'We have designed the crisis' Heidi Marston, executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), resigned Monday amid a dispute about pay for the agency’s lowest compensated employees. Her resignation comes while as many as 83,000 homeless people are living on the streets of Los Angeles County.
April 24, 2022 Spike among LA homeless deaths was not driven by COVID: Data Drug overdoses drove the death spike among Los Angeles county homeless population, not COVID, a report from the county’s Department of Public Health finds.