Category: homelessness crisis

Quebec Officials Dismantle Homeless Camp Under Montreal Highway

July 11, 2023
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Quebec officials have dismantled a homeless encampment beneath an elevated Montreal highway ahead of a major roadwork project and following a months-long legal battle. The province’s Transport Department says the last of the camp’s residents departed this morning and department personnel were in the process of clearing the site to make way for repair work…

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What the Homeless Owe Us

June 21, 2023
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Commentary We often hear about what “we”—i.e., society—owe the homeless. But we rarely discuss what the unhoused owe us. It’s time for that to change. This is a matter of great urgency. Some of our (once) most prosperous and beautiful cities—San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc.—are imploding under the pressure of squalid homeless squatter camps,…

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Almost a Third of America’s Homeless Population Lives in California, Study Finds

June 21, 2023
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California has the largest number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States, accounting for nearly a third of the country’s homeless population, according to a recent study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). “More than 171,000 people experience homelessness daily in California, two times more than the next highest state,” the…

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Veterans’ Homelessness to Cost Billions If Unaddressed

June 6, 2023
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Veterans are almost three times as likely to end up on the street but three times less likely to ask for help, a new report has found. In the past year, almost 6,000 or 5.3 percent of Australia’s half a million veterans, were on the streets, a rate almost three times higher than the general…

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Class Action ADA Suit Forces Portland to Clear Sidewalks of Homeless Camps

May 31, 2023
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The City of Portland, Oregon, will be required to clear its sidewalks of sprawling homeless camps under terms of a lawsuit tentatively settled this week. Filed in September, the federal class action lawsuit alleged that the city violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by allowing tent camps and debris…

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