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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.

April 20, 2022

Man stabbed in Texas machete attack near homeless encampment

A man was allegedly attacked in Texas by an unidentified suspect with a machete Monday evening near a homeless encampment.

April 19, 2022

California coroner identifies 'mummified body' found in abandoned convention center as missing homeless man

A “mummified body” that was found last month in between the inner and outer walls of the abandoned Oakland Convention Center was identified this week as 42-year-old Joseph Edward Mejica, a homeless man who had been missing since August 2020.

April 15, 2022

Father who moved family out of Seattle says others should follow: 'It's completely out of control'

Ryle Goodrich joined "America's Newsroom" Friday to explain why he moved his family out of Seattle. He said the city is "not a normal place to be" due to the continued homeless crisis and surging crime rates.

April 14, 2022

Homeless camps on public land risk felony in Tennessee bill

Tennessee lawmakers voted to advance a bill that would threaten felony penalties against homeless people living on local public property.

April 4, 2022

Los Angeles County Sheriff planning to ‘clean up the streets in Hollywood’ despite area being under LAPD

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he wants to have some of his deputies in Hollywood, a neighborhood plagued by homeless encampments, despite the area being under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Police department.

April 2, 2022

NYU tour pelted with eggs as homeless continually harass groups in Greenwich Village

Prospective New York University students and their parents are getting an unwelcome taste of the Big Apple’s homeless crisis as they tour the college’s Greenwich Village campus.

March 29, 2022

Driver who crashed into Oregon homeless camp killing 4, hurting 3 was drunk: prosecutor

Four people were killed after a driver crashed into a homeless camp in Salem, Oregon, early Sunday morning.

March 28, 2022

Conservative activist travels America cleaning up cities let down by 'failed' Democrat policies

Conservative activist Scott Presler is on a mission to clean up American cities that have been let down by "failed Democrat policies” while registering a new generation of Republican voters along the way.