homelessness

The chaplain at a Saskatchewan provincial jail says inmates are being set up to fail because there's not enough safe places for them to live after they're released from custody. Many inmates leaving the Prince Albert Correctional Centre are faced with unaffordable high rents for accommodations or no room at homeless shelters where they can safely stay, Roy Wilmhoff said. It means many end up couch-surfing with friends, and that can lead to trouble if alcohol or drugs are forbidden to them as a condi  

AMHERST, Mass. One area homeless shelter will be closing its doors, and advocates for the homeless aren't giving it up without a fight. The Town of Amherst says it plans to close the "Warming Center" for the homeless on Monday. The shelter, which was housed in the First Baptist Church, provided a warm place to stay for dozens of homeless people in Amherst.  

David Wishnewsky got a call on his cell phone this week. A homeless student needed some basic things — food and shoes. The school district arranged to get the student a grocery card and size seven shoes from Payless ShoeSource.  

Plans to locate the city's homeless shelter near Douglas County Jail will face their first hurdle on Monday. Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will consider approving a special-use permit for the 125-bed shelter at its 6:30 p.m. meeting Monday at City Hall. Planning staff members are recommending approval of the permit and also are recommending that the permit not be subject to an automatic expiration date. Traditionally, special-use permits must be periodically renewed by the City Commissio

It is open-ended, but you have to remember that the City Commission can initiate a revocation of the permit at any time   -Sandra Day

 

Roy's Desert Resource Center, the western Coachella Valley's new homeless shelter, has been open for about three months — and officials report it's already nearing capacity. Valley residents seeking shelter from the streets presently fill on average 80 of the 90 available beds a night at the facility, according to Desert SOS, which operates Roy's Desert Resource Center. The shelter, in a Palm Springs industrial zone off Interstate 10, aims to serve the western Coachella Valley's homeless population.  

WHAT STARTED OUT as a success story has now turned into nothing short of a failure. That's the view of the vendors who ply their trade in Probyn Street, the City. They were relocated to the car park in Probyn Street by the Government. They now say they are in dire straits because no one is purchasing their products.  

Norwood didn't barge into the tent. He didn't start banging on it with his flashlight. Instead, he stood a respectful distance from the tent's threshold and asked, "Anybody home?"  

President Jacob Zuma visited a shantytown outside Johannesburg and vowed to improve public services to defuse anger that has erupted into protests ahead of the World Cup. Zuma's trip on Friday to the Madelakufa squatter camp east of Johannesburg was part of three weeks of "monitoring and evaluation visits," which appear aimed at reassuring the public that he is addressing their concerns. "We are going to start work," said Zuma, speaking in Zulu, as thousands of people turned out to see him walking betwee

We are going to start work   -Jacob Zuma

 

The City of Olympia plans to clean out homeless camps in city parks and along the Woodland Trail after receiving a number of complaints from neighbors about zoning, sanitation and drug-abuse issues. Olympia Police Lt. Bill Wilson said the police department has given residents of camps along the Woodland Trail about 30 days notice that they need to move. He said residents will be warned again before camps are cleared.

We are just now starting the process that will invite the police department, the parks department, Community Planning and Development, possibly the Public Works Department to add the homeless encampments in our parks   -Bill Wilson