Tag Archives: homelessness

NYC Moves To Remove Homeless From Subway System

The New York Times reports: Responding to an increase in crime in the New York City subways and concerns from riders about being harassed by people who shelter on trains, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday that they would no longer allow the city’s subway system to be used for anything but transportation. The New York …

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Fox Host: Many Homeless “Prefer To Be Homeless”

Media Matters has the transcript: It’s all about affordable housing. If you Google stuff on homelessness, that’s the number one hit, it’s about affordable housing. That is a lie. It has no effect on the transient population. If you do not contribute to society through work, the only affordable housing has to be free. It doesn’t matter if it’s $300 …

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Tucker Carlson Demands Homeless “Get Out” Of Cities

Media Matters has the transcript: If you destroy the nuclear family, which they have, if you decriminalize drugs, which they have, if you hand out tents and needles to addicts, what do you think is going to happen? You’re going to get more addicts living in tents. Again, it’s not complicated. This is not a vexing public policy question that …

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Jenner Returns From Australia To Attack The Homeless

The Independent reports: Jenner, whose campaign is reportedly already in debt, kicked off her statewide bus tour with a stroll through a homeless encampment — which was somehow appropriate, considering her strange and privileged preoccupation with California’s homeless population. Earlier this month, she told KRON 4 that she wanted to move the state’s homeless community — consisting of over 60,000 …

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GOP Charlotte City Councilman Suggests Making It Illegal To Give Money Or Food “Directly” To Homeless

Charlotte’s Fox News affiliate reports: A Charlotte City Council member says he has no regrets after his comments about the city’s homeless population caused outrage. During the city council meeting, Councilman Tariq Bokhari suggested that when people give money or food to homeless individuals instead of charities and organizations, that they are causing more harm than good. “People aren’t getting …

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HUD Restores Transgender Homeless Protections

Roll Call reports: The Housing and Urban Development Department recommitted to Obama-era protections that ensure transgender people experiencing homelessness can stay in shelters that correspond with their gender identities. The department on Thursday withdrew a proposal put forward under President Donald Trump last year that would have rolled back the protections in HUD’s 2012 Equal Access rule for transgender and …

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Trump: If New York And California Want My Help With Their Homelessness Problem, They Must “Ask Politely”

Politico reports: President Trump on Saturday went after New York and California over homelessness, saying the states’ governors should call him if they “can’t handle” the issue. “If their Governors can’t handle the situation, which they should be able to do very easily, they must call and ‘politely’ ask for help. Would be so easy with competence!” the president continued. …

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SCOTUS: Homeless May Sleep On The Sidewalk

The Los Angeles Times reports: The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a major case on homelessness, letting stand a ruling that protects homeless people’s right to sleep on the sidewalk or in public parks if no other shelter is available. The justices without comment or a dissent said that they would not hear the case from Boise, Idaho, which …

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Guest Post: Ali Forney Center Founder Carl Siciliano

From Joe: Beloved readers, on this Thanksgiving Day, as on every other day of the year, uncountable LGBT kids are living on the streets, turned out by the very people who are supposed to love them. As we do every Thanksgiving, today we turn JMG over to Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano. Please click and read his message below…. …

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UN To Honor Cyndi Lauper’s LGBTQ Youth Advocacy

Variety reports: The United Nations will award Cyndi Lauper with the first High Note Global Prize award for her promotion of human rights and impacting work to prevent and end homelessness for LGBTQ youth, the organization announced today. On U.N. Human Rights Day — which is December 10 — the High Note Global Prize will be presented to Lauper by …

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CALIFORNIA: 12 Church Leaders Charged With Forced Labor Of Homeless And Theft Of Public Benefits [VIDEO]

CNN reports: A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry have been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of forced labor of mostly homeless people, a US attorney said. Imperial Valley Ministries leaders recruited people by promising food and shelter, and instead forced them to beg for money for nine hours a day, six days a week and to give …

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Trump Orders Crackdown On Homeless Encampments

The Washington Post reports: President Trump has ordered White House officials to conduct a sweeping crackdown on homelessness in California, citing the state’s growing crisis, according to four government officials aware of the effort. The talks have intensified in recent weeks. Administration officials have discussed using the federal government to get homeless people off the streets of Los Angeles and …

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Florida City Plays Baby Shark To Drive Away Homeless

The Palm Beach Post reports: The city of West Palm Beach has launched a music offensive, playing torturous sound loops all night long of the children’s song “Baby Shark” to keep the homeless from lying about the patio of the city’s Lake Pavilion. The pavilion, a glass-walled events venue that overlooks the waterfront and downtown’s Great Lawn, hosted 164 events …

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Trump: Homelessness Really Started Getting Bad Two Years Ago, I Helped Fix It In DC “Very Quickly” [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump revealed to Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson that the problem of “filth” in U.S. cities like New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles “started two years ago.” This means that, in the president’s opinion, major U.S. cities did not have a problem with homelessness until he was six months into his presidency. Carlson noted …

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Fox Host’s Solution To LA’s Homeless Problem: Bulldoze A 50-Block Radius & Institutionalize Everybody [VIDEO]

“Democrats have run this city. They control the city council and they control the mayor’s office. They have allowed this thing to fester because they allow anything to happen, and now it’s a radius, a 50-block radius, and they thought they had it contained, but now, it’s started to infect other people. People go in to this place, but they …

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Hannity: Red States Don’t Have A Homeless Problem

“There’s one commonality. This is not happening in Florida or Texas or states that have zero income tax. This is happening in big cities where they have massive amounts of taxation. It begs the question Governor, what are they doing with all the money that they’re confiscating from people in their states? “We went to San Francisco twice, a mile …

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Salesforce CEO Donates $30M To SF Homeless Study

Forbes reports: Marc Benioff, billionaire founder of enterprise software behemoth Salesforce, and his wife Lynne are donating $30 million to the University of California, San Francisco to fund a new research initiative that will identify the root causes of, and find evidence-based solutions towards ending, homelessness. The new program, called the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, will be part of …

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Guest Post: Ali Forney Center Founder Carl Siciliano

From Joe: Beloved readers, on this Thanksgiving Day, as on every other day of the year, uncountable LGBT kids are living on the streets, turned out by the very people who are supposed to love them. As we do every Thanksgiving, today we turn JMG over to Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano. Please click and read his message below…. …

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Charges Filed In Viral $400,000 GoFundMe Campaign: Couple Conspired With Homeless Man To Invent Story

NBC News Philadelphia reports: A New Jersey couple accused of scamming a homeless good Samaritan out of hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of an online fundraiser that went viral a year ago had initially conspired with him to concoct a “fictitious story,” prosecutors allege. A complaint obtained by NBC Philadelphia says couple Mark D’Amico and Kate McClure made …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Complains About “Unfair” Corporate Tax To Stem Homelessness

The Hill reports: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday sounded off against a San Francisco measure to increase corporate taxes that would give the city more funding to tackle its homeless crisis. Dorsey said he was opposed to San Francisco’s Proposition C because he believes one of companies he leads as CEO, Square, will be taxed at unfair rates compared …

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