Police, community homeless group connect with Filipino man Allan Par in hopes of helping him find job, home Swallows flutter out from beneath a bridge over a shallow Winnipeg creek next to where Allan Par has made himself a home in one of the unlikeliest of places. “I like the solitude,” Par says from outside the significant two-room shack he built from scavenged pallet wood, shingles and other discarded materials from surrounding commercial businesses. The building backs onto a parking lot bridge over…..
August 19, 2019 ANNA SCOTT Along a big, commercial street in Los Angeles’ North Hollywood area, near a row of empty storefronts, about half a dozen motor homes sat parked on a recent morning. Inside one of them, 67-year-old Edith Grays and her husband watched TV with the door open. Grays said they’d been there a few days, despite a two-hour parking limit. “Thank God they’re not bothering us right now,” she said. It’s not unusual to see clusters of…..
Ta’leesha Till Ta’leesha Till is a nine-year old fourth-grader from Jackson, Mississippi, whose family just migrated to San Diego, California from the Hospitality State. In the Tills’ former neighborhood on Farish Street, one student out of five is homeless. By law in Mississippi, an education merely has to be “adequate.”In San Diego, Ta’leesha holds out to Reverend Stephen Bentham, the pastor of a shelter named The Settlement, a small picture that she carried with her 1700 miles West, a drawing…..
By Ed O’Loughlin DUBLIN — For generations, the Irish took for granted that affordable, plentiful housing was the bedrock of their economic security and government policy. Not long ago, Ireland had one of the world’s highest rates of homeownership. The last several years have torn up those assumptions, leaving the country in the grip of a worsening housing crisis. Homeownership has dropped, evictions and homelessness have climbed sharply, surging demand for rental units has led to a shortage, and soaring rents…..