Tag Archives: homelessness

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade endorsed euthanizing unhoused people suffering from mental health issues who decline getting help. He made the remark during a recent episode where his co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones were discussing the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska. The co-hosts posited that the suspect, …

Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.” The statement comes amid his continuing attacks on homeless people after signing an executive order pressing local governments across the country to unhoused people from the streets. “We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in …

About 100 cities have banned people from sleeping outside since June when the Supreme Court ruled that a city in Oregon was allowed to criminalize homelessness despite a lack of public shelters. The policy has support from politicians across the country, Democrats and Republicans alike. As housing becomes more expensive …

The Supreme Court just ruled that politicians can essentially criminalize homelessness. The court ruled in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that an Oregon town can ban sleeping outdoors. The 6-3 ruling fell along ideological lines. “Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime,” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in …

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to weigh in on whether homeless individuals have the right to camp on public property. The issue is the biggest SCOTUS case in decades on the rights of the homeless, and the decision has the potential to impact how cities across the U.S. handle …

F ew pro athletes have overcome more than Jimmy Butler. Homeless by 13. Unrecruited out of high school. Played ball at a small junior college. Landed at Marquette. Came off the bench till his junior year. Slid to 30th in the draft. Didn’t start as a rookie. Spent years banging …

A scandalous claim that homeless veterans being housed in an upstate New York hotel were evicted to make room for undocumented migrants turned out to be an orchestrated fraud — with homeless men having been recruited by a nonprofit to gin up national outrage. On Friday, The Mid-Hudson News, which …

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Hugh Prestwood needed help. The country music songwriter and his wife Judy came to the sobering realization that they could no longer afford the rent at their Long Island, New York, home. Nor could they scrounge together the money to move back to Prestwood’s native Texas, even if the state’s …