The City of Santa Ana is planning to remove a homeless encampment after a contract was violated by a non-profit that previously agreed to clear the space. El Centro de Cultural de Mexico, an 837 N. Ross St. cultural center, has been allowing at times more than 40 homeless people to sleep on its parking lot since early…
Santa Ana to Remove Homeless Encampment
May 10, 2021
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Homeless Man Asks Texas Steakhouse Owner for Job Busing, and She Gives Him ‘A Whole New Start’
A Texas community came through for a homeless man in need after a social media post shared his story. Kenneth Smith went from sitting outside an Outback Steakhouse to busing tables for the same restaurant—but most importantly, he found hope. It all started with a gift card. A concerned customer saw Smith dozing in a…
VIDEO: Philly Barber Gives Free Haircut to Homeless Veteran–and His Smile at the End Is Amazing
A viral video of a homeless man undergoing a transformation in the form of a haircut has left TikTokers in amazement. The clip shows a military vet having his grungy hair sheared cleanly and gruffy beard neatly trimmed, completely changing his appearance. The final touch of the barber’s clippers leaves the man looking like new—as…
How California Cities are Collaborating to Address Homelessness | Josh Newman and Corey Sianez
California spent $13 billion to address the homeless issue over the past three years, including a $20 million pilot program, which brings ten Southern California cities together to manage the expanding homeless population. My guests are California State Senator Josh Newman and Buena Park’s Chief of Police, Corey Sianez. They discuss, how law enforcement and the…
Oceanside Reckons With Tent City Lining Its Streets
OCEANSIDE, Calif.—The city of Oceanside in San Diego County recently took a unique approach to its homeless problem: It replaced a growing tent city that had lined one of its major streets with large rocks. The city took action after citizens complained that the tent community attracted crime and filth to an area with local…
Blighted San Francisco Diagnoses Its ‘Perilous Trifecta’—and Bungles the Cure
April 30, 2021
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San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks,…
How California Created the Homelessness Industrial Complex | Scott Silverman
California’s homeless population reached an all-time high in 2020 with over 70 percent living without shelter. My guest is Scott Silverman. He founded Second Chance to break the cycle of homelessness. He discusses how the need to help the homeless has turned into a homelessness industrial complex. California Insider is an Epoch Times show available…
Welding Lives Back Together One at a Time
April 25, 2021
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For Rolling Hills Covenant Church Outreach Pastor Steve Bunyard, helping those whose lives have taken a wrong turn means more than just enabling survival for the down and out. It means guiding them to a stable future by teaching them to provide for themselves. Bunyard initially struggled with how to help rehabilitate those wanting to change their lives. He said he believed that providing dignity through a skilled trade could…
Student Left Homeless Had to Sleep at School–but Beat the Odds to Earn Her Degree
A gifted UK student overcame incredible odds facing homelessness as a teen and going to school; she has earned her degree from the University of Liverpool. Sarah Brunsdon was just 15 years old when her family broke apart and she was left without a home during her school years. For a time, Sarah, now living in Rainford,…
More than $950 Million Budgeted for LA’s Homeless
April 21, 2021
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wants to spend up to $23,000 per homeless person over the next year. That’s the analysis of Garcetti’s state of the city speech April 19 and his 500-plus page budget proposal, covering the July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022 fiscal year. In his speech, Garcetti said, “we will dedicate…
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