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February 17, 2024

Facing community pushback, NYC mayor reverses plan to house migrants in luxury building

A luxury abandoned apartment building in Harlem will not be converted into a shelter for migrants and will instead house native homeless New Yorkers, Mayor Adams announced.

February 17, 2024

Crisis in the Northwest: Inside one of Oregon’s largest homeless camps with a former drug dealer

The number of people living unsheltered in Oregon has risen steeply in recent years. Here's a look at one of the biggest homeless encampments in the state.

February 16, 2024

Crisis in the Northwest: Inside one of Oregon’s largest homeless camps with a former drug dealer

The number of people living unsheltered in Oregon has risen steeply in recent years. Here's a look at one of the biggest homeless encampments in the state.

February 15, 2024

Austin resident uses AI to track homeless camps as crisis skyrockets, millions spent

An Austin resident who documented the city’s worsening homeless crisis has helped develop an AI interactive map that tracks camps and communities across the city.

February 14, 2024

CA's Newsom calls for support for homeless crisis initiative, mental health advocates say it will backfire

Gov. Newsom's California homelessness crisis ballot will require counties to allocate money toward those efforts, taking it away from others like mental health services.

February 14, 2024

LA private school forced to close over intrusions by homeless drug users, 'indecent exposure' around hotel

Academy of Media Arts Founder Dana Hammond filed suit after being forced to close his private school in Los Angeles over public safety concerns stemming from the homeless crisis.

February 13, 2024

SF officials might be on the hook for $190m in homeless hotel costs after feds retract COVID funding promises

One California official claims FEMA 'inconsistently' applied its COVID-19 era 'non-congregate shelter' policies across the country, which has left them with the bill.

February 13, 2024

Los Angeles school closes over homeless crisis: 'Disaster'

Academy of Media Arts Founder Dana Hammond joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why the school was forced to close to accommodate the homeless population.  

February 11, 2024

Dems secure $600M in federal taxpayer funds to fight homelessness, but some are skeptical it will help

California will receive $600 million to curtail homelessness as the state continues to use controversial practices to tackle the problem.

February 7, 2024

Kentucky lawmakers break bread with the homeless while weighing public camping ban in state legislature

Kentucky legislators shared a lunch of fried chicken Wednesday with numerous homeless people in the midst of passing a criminal justice measure that would make public camping unlawful.