Homeless families face limits on shelter stays as Massachusetts grapples with migrant influx

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• LAPD had no security at mayor’s house when intruder broke in; suspect targeted Bass, D.A. says
• Monthly payments of $1,000 could get thousands of homeless people off the streets, researchers say
• ‘Scranton Joe’ Biden sails to victory. Trump meets resistance from Haley holdouts.
• Newsom calls for increased oversight of local homelessness efforts
• Trump’s comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 …

Under Bass, the city has increased the number of interim housing placements by 28%. At the same time, a significant number of people also have been leaving those sites. How far those efforts will go toward addressing the city’s overall homelessness crisis is still unclear. King County offered up unused pallet shelters and $1 million to help Burien establish temporary housing. It took the city months to accept that offer, and now another five months to reach the point it is currently, which is rezoning the property chosen for the pallet shelters. A majority of Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared sympathetic to an Oregon city making it a crime for anyone without a permanent residence to sleep outside in an effort to crack down on homeless encampments across public properties.

LAPD had no security at mayor’s house when intruder broke in; suspect targeted Bass, D.A. says

Meanwhile, UCLA professor of law emeritus Gary Blasi, who has repeatedly sued the city over its handling of homelessness, gave the mayor favorable marks for her work on that issue. In addition, the city could see its homelessness numbers increase if evictions push a substantial number of residents onto the street, Bass said. BURIEN, Wash. — The city of Burien is still working on solutions to house people who are currently living in tents throughout the King County city. The lead plaintiff in the case refused a shelter bed because she wanted to remain outside with her dog. "These generally applicable laws prohibit specific conduct and are essential to public health and safety," argued the city's attorney Theane Evangelis during oral arguments, which stretched more than two and a half hours.

Monthly payments of $1,000 could get thousands of homeless people off the streets, researchers say

Plan to build homeless pallet village in Burien delayed as rezoning fight continues - KOMO News

Plan to build homeless pallet village in Burien delayed as rezoning fight continues.

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The governor’s office referred questions about the audit to the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, which cited a law Newsom signed in 2021 that requires entities receiving state homeless funds to collect data. Since the law took effect last year, the California Interagency Council on Homelessness has made “significant progress,” spokesperson Russ Heimerich said in an email. Still, Ms. Lee drew criticism in her district from some Jewish voters, who said in the days before the election that they were unhappy with her positions on Israel. Ms. Patel, 30, also tried to cast her opponent as insufficiently supportive of President Biden.

House Democrats Reject Giving Massachusetts Homeless Veterans Preference Over Migrants in Shelter System - Fall River Reporter

House Democrats Reject Giving Massachusetts Homeless Veterans Preference Over Migrants in Shelter System.

Posted: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:18:18 GMT [source]

‘Scranton Joe’ Biden sails to victory. Trump meets resistance from Haley holdouts.

Since an announcement earlier this year by Governor Newsom to purchase 1,200 small homes, the Administration has made significant progress in working with local governments to deliver these units throughout the state. California received more than $5 billion in federal funding for rent relief, giving Los Angeles renters the ability to apply directly to the state if they needed assistance with paying back rent. LAHSA said it was able to move 8,900 people into motel rooms, but the program is winding down. As of June, there were 16 locations serving 2,019 people, according to the Los Angeles County Emergency Operations Center. FEMA now reimburses up to 100% of money spent to rent the hotels/motels, but the city said the process is too slow to get their upfront money back.

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It also makes possible greater coordination of homelessness programs’ funding and may enable cost‑effectiveness comparisons,” the audit stated. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness shortly after she took office in December 2022. Her first budget allocated $1.3 billion to address the growing crisis, with the number of people living on the streets rising 80% since 2015. The organisation has operated the 138-year-old heritage-listed building in Ballarat's city centre as crisis accommodation for 21 years, providing a place to stay for thousands of people experiencing homelessness. On Monday, Bass delivered her State of the City address, which included a call for "the most fortunate Angelenos'' to participate in a capital campaign to speed creation of affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness. The Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, recently reported that more than 21,000 unhoused people had moved indoors over the last year.

Ms. Lee’s stances against Israel’s military campaign drew a primary challenge from Bhavini Patel, a moderate Democrat who opposed Ms. Lee’s approach on the war. Mr. Trump also notched a decisive primary victory, but many Republican voters continued to express their discontent with the former president. At least 155,000 registered Republican voters cast ballots for Ms. Haley, who had been Mr. Trump’s chief rival in the primaries before dropping out of the race last month. President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump were deadlocked at 46 percent in a head-to-head poll of registered voters released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University. They were still tied, at 37 percent, when third-party candidates were included. (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was at 16 percent.) When voters were asked about Trump’s New York criminal trial, 46 percent said they believed he’d done something illegal.

Newsom calls for increased oversight of local homelessness efforts

But a Rand Corp. study concluded that the HHH labor agreement has added 14.5% to construction costs. One woman who lives nearby told KTLA’s John Fenoglio in Spanish that unhoused residents don’t bother her, and that most of those living along the Arroyo are quiet and keep to themselves. Among the 46,000 people in Los Angeles experiencing homelessness, there are dozens living along the Arroyo Seco next to the 110 Freeway near Highland Park.

The state expects to be able to house 55 migrant families in the transitional shelter

Under the bill, voters who are homeless would need to go to the county registrar’s office to see if their registration was up-to-date, to learn about a change in a polling location or request and receive an absentee ballot. Voters with a permanent residence would receive information like this at their homes. A single-sentence provision in a new election bill in Georgia could complicate voting for some of the state’s homeless population. "However, our commitment to people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity across the Ballarat and Central Highlands remains as strong as ever." State lawmakers have been looking at ways to address the crisis, including coming up with a budget that dedicates millions of dollars to keep the family shelter program functional. There is also a proposal to limit the length of a stay at a shelter site to nine months, which worries advocates who say the average stay is significantly longer.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in a decision last year that a homeless camping ban amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" under the 8th Amendment. But several members of the high court's conservative majority took a critical view of that conclusion. Extensions could also be offered to those with a diagnosed disability or medical condition, a single parent caring for a disabled child or family member, a single parent without adequate child care, and those at risk of harm due to domestic violence.

The process may move one step further during the scheduled City Council meeting on Monday evening. The Oregon law's defenders say the ordinance merely criminalizes the conduct of camping in public, not the fact that the camper has no home. They also argue that the state allows for a "necessity" defense, which those charged with violating the city's ordinance could pursue if they could show they truly had nowhere else to go. Pressing the limits of the constitutional argument against the Oregon city's ordinance, Justice Neil Gorsuch asked if there might be a right to defecate and urinate in public if bathrooms aren't available to the homeless. Chief Roberts asked whether a nearby town's shelter capacity, or whether a person's decision to decline a bed, should be taken into consideration. Many appeared to reject claims that the Grants Pass ordinance and others like it criminalize a person based their experience of involuntary homelessness, rather than for a concrete action.

Portable toilets initially used have been replaced by permanent bathrooms and showers. A new report from the California State Auditor’s Office found that a state council created to oversee the implementation of homelessness programs has not consistently tracked spending or the outcomes of those programs. During the primary, Ms. Lee often promoted her record in Congress, including having brought federal dollars to the district, and framed her candidacy around supporting a more diverse Democratic Party and fighting Trump-aligned Republicans. In the last fund-raising quarter, Ms. Lee collected more than three times as much money as Ms. Patel did.

Los Angeles’ history of redlining — discriminatory housing lending practices that emerged from Roosevelt’s New Deal — is also why Black people are overrepresented in the unhoused population. Among the findings was that deaths among young ,unhoused people increased at a greater rate than their older counterparts. There were 175 deaths among unhoused people ages to 18 to 29 from April 2020 to March 2021, compared with 85 during the same time period from 2019 to 2020 — a 106% increase. In 1967, California passed the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act, which gave authorities permission to take people into custody for 72-hour psychiatric holds if they were deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

LAHSA did a 2022 count of people experiencing homelessness, and the results of that count are expected by the end of summer, according to a LAHSA spokesperson. Being houseless refers to an individual or family lacking a fixed, regular or adequate nighttime residence. Individuals or families living in a hotel/motel or garage would also fall under the same category, according to the U.S. HUD also expanded the definition of homeless to include people fleeing domestic violence and having no other residence, or who lack support networks needed to get housing. Something commonly mentioned when discussing homelessness is that it’s an overwhelming and complicated problem with no clear solution.