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But federal courts block local efforts to clean street encampments - even when housing and services are offered. (pacificlegal.org)
Although some encampments have been torn down by officials, they often reappear shortly afterward. (naturalnews.com)
The growth of the unsheltered population living on Salt Lake City streets has been accompanied by a larger and larger encampment situation in public spaces and, unfortunately, criminal activity in and around those encampments," she said. (kuer.org)
But when asked what would happen if the people in homeless encampments refused to be put in a motel or hotel and if he would consider forcing them into housing, here's what Newsom said: "All of these things are hypotheticals and we'll meet the moment. (pjmedia.com)
While some people do worry about Newsom's police-state proclivities in this health emergency, such as commandeering private hotels to house possible coronavirus patients, invoking it to clear an obvious health hazard in filthy homeless encampments isn't one of them … because he has "existing rules and regulations" to do that. (pjmedia.com)
Any police response to resident complaints about encampments, open drug use, or threatening behavior is denounced as "criminalization. (city-journal.org)
Coalition members attend meetings, protest so-called sweeps (cleaning out encampments), and verbally abuse anyone who doesn't want massive shelters that function as havens for drug use and criminal activity to be built next to their residences. (city-journal.org)
There was another different thing: There were virtually no daily news stories in local and city newspapers about RVing, or rather, the problem of RVs and people in homeless encampments and on city streets. (rvtravel.com)
They would make it a few blocks or across town to a residential or industrial side street, parking lot, or public property where other people in similar impecunious straits parked in what eventually became "homeless RV encampments. (rvtravel.com)
She and other women are now receiving care from specialized street medicine teams fanning across California to treat homeless people wherever they are - whether in squalid encampments, makeshift shantytowns clustered along rivers, or vehicles they stealthily maneuver from one neighborhood to another in search of a safe place to park. (northdenvernews.com)
A Brew Exclusive: We publish the city's policy on when and how it will dismantle homeless encampments. (baltimorebrew.com)
The Rawlings-Blake administration has disclosed its "Protocol for Dismantling Homeless Encampments," emphasizing its right to raze any settlement deemed unsafe or unsanitary even "if permanent housing cannot be secured by the date the encampment is scheduled to be cleared. (baltimorebrew.com)
The police department has seen an increase in calls about homeless people setting up encampments, loitering in front of businesses, panhandling on street corners, and discarding drug paraphernalia like needles, particularly in the Sunnyslope area. (northcentralnews.net)

Mendenhall and other homelessness officials said many people who are offered services while living on the street don't want to go into shelters. (kuer.org)
Currently, shelters don't allow weapons or drugs. (kuer.org)
Operation Rio Grande," which has cracked down on crime surrounding the downtown homeless shelters and resulted in hundreds of arrests, is pushing drug dealers out of the neighborhood and out of Utah, officials tell FOX 13. (wral.com)
The crackdown that began in August calls for police to maintain a heavy presence around the downtown homeless shelters until at least 2019. (wral.com)
Fifty percent of the funding would go toward housing, 25 percent to mental health and addiction programs, 15 percent to people who are at risk of becoming homeless or have recently become so, and 10 percent to short-term "residential shelters and hygiene programs. (city-journal.org)
As housing evictions soared, other socioeconomic problems, unemployment, deteriorating mental health, drug abuse, and despair drove unprecedented numbers of people from their homes and shelters onto the streets or to find makeshift solutions to their housing crisis. (rvtravel.com)
The judge was referring to a Bronx shelter, but the ruling is relevant to dozens of shelters, including the one on 95th street. (westsiderag.com)
How about the massive payoffs to a notorious landlord, whose shelters are known for drug abuse, prostitution and violence ? (westsiderag.com)
Yet they acknowledge that it's no quick fix, that the expansion of street medicine signals an acceptance that homelessness isn't going away anytime soon - and that there may never be enough housing , homeless shelters, and treatment beds for everyone living outside. (northdenvernews.com)
COPE: A lot of the newly arrived asylum seekers don't have relatives in New York to stay with, so after they leave the station, they often have to go to city homeless shelters. (ksmu.org)
The shelter system doesn't track people by immigration status, but city officials say around 6,000 asylum seekers overall have entered city shelters since May. (ksmu.org)
One agency that works with the homeless population-Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS)-requested the city use some of that budget surplus to increase CASS's funding so that more case managers can be hired to deal with the growing influx of people coming into its shelters. (northcentralnews.net)
Among are enrolled in a public assistance programme, 52% other services, free medical services are available for all are pensioners and daily-paid labourers without public persons on public assistance, as long as a medical board assistance and some without health insurance, and 5% agrees to the appropriateness of each treatment during a are homeless individuals living in shelters, on the streets monthly review. (who.int)

The survey also revealed that two thirds of voters would like to see the streets cleared by sending drug addicts to rehab. (naturalnews.com)
It's known as Fentanyl Island and is being overrun by homeless drug addicts. (usamdt.com)
Tranq addicts wander the streets in a daze. (usamdt.com)
The notion that homeless Californians are just down-on-their-luck cases has been undermined by viral videos such as Michael Shellenberger's interviews with street addicts. (city-journal.org)
Today, the city's streets are littered with homeless and drug addicts, and crime rates are off the charts. (mercenaries.media)
But because of their ultra-liberal policies, some of the major cities on the west coast have become magnets for drug addicts, serial criminals, sex offenders, illegal immigrants and people that have simply heard about all of the "free benefits" that are being offered. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
What we do know is that San Francisco is a huge magnet for drug addicts. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
And as all those drug addicts aimlessly wander through the streets, many of them use those streets as their own personal toilets. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
In addition to endless piles of poop, the drug addicts are also endlessly committing property crimes in order to pay for their drug habits. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
The Everett Police Department announced today that it has officially partnered with the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (PAARI) as part of the department's ongoing efforts to combat the opioid epidemic and help get drug addicts on the road to recovery. (myeverettnews.com)
Among its many efforts, PAARI collaborates with public safety agencies to encourage opioid drug users to seek recovery, including by helping police officers connect addicts with drug treatment facilities, often on scholarship if private insurance is not available. (myeverettnews.com)
The homeless in the street, drug addicts in the north of Paris, ordinary people who sometimes do not hesitate to spit in our faces […] So for us, it's incomprehensible," a Paris police official told LCI on July 13. (freewestmedia.com)

Three homeless people were killed Monday and six others injured when a car driven by a DUI suspect plowed into an encampment on a sidewalk near City College. (fox5sandiego.com)
Police investigate a crash that killed three people and injured six at a sidewalk homeless encampment in downtown San Diego. (fox5sandiego.com)
A view of a homeless encampment on Logan Avenue in the East Village on June 14, 2023. (voiceofsandiego.org)
The City of Seattle evicted 26 illegally parked RVs and other vehicles used as dwellings from a homeless RV encampment in West Seattle. (rvtravel.com)
City-run "Safe RV Parking Lots," such as the one established by the city of Oakland, CA, to provide a controlled encampment along with some city services, have been an abject failure due to the complexity of homeless issues and lack of mental health and law enforcement resources at the sites. (rvtravel.com)
In San Diego from 2016 to 2018, a homeless-encampment-related outbreak of hepatitis A infected hundreds , 20 fatally. (city-journal.org)
The three pages of guidelines - placed on the record at a City Council hearing last night - say that the Mayor's Office of Human Services will appoint a project coordinator to take charge of dismantling a homeless camp, who will then assign an "outreach team" to notify campers of the date when the encampment will be cleared. (baltimorebrew.com)
They [the evicted campers] are free to choose or decline any of these options, and will continue to be assisted by outreach workers regardless of their choice," the document says, though it is unclear how outreach workers will stay in contact with homeless who disappear from a razed encampment. (baltimorebrew.com)
When Eric was announcing that he was doing his encampment raids on homeless people, I called him and we had a very intense private conversation. (crainsnewyork.com)

The National Alliance to End Homelessness's 2023 State of Homelessness report found that 22 percent of America's homeless population are individuals who are chronically homeless, while 6 percent are veterans and 5 percent are unaccompanied young people under the age of 25. (naturalnews.com)
Through daily contact, officers try to assist frequent users and the chronically homeless by helping them overcome barriers to treatment and stability. (myeverettnews.com)

When the survey, which was carried out by the conservative advocacy group People for Portland, asked voters whether they agreed with mayor Ted Wheeler's plan to ban daytime camping by homeless people and block tents from being placed near daycare centers and schools, 71 percent came out in support of the measures. (naturalnews.com)

It did so by failing to properly recognize that our system of separation of powers allocates to local and state elected officials' authority to address a public health and safety crisis like homelessness through their policy choices. (pacificlegal.org)
Veterans who have experienced homelessness told Military.com that getting off the streets and into permanent housing is a long-lasting struggle that requires personal resolve and a range of support services to get past the panhandling and dumpster diving that many use to survive. (military.com)
It brought on an economic downturn that officials and advocacy groups fear has led to a major surge in homelessness nationwide, although there currently are no reliable estimates on the scope of the problem. (military.com)
At the state's annual summit on homelessness on Wednesday, Utah Lt. Governor Spencer Cox and Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said they had intel that revealed many high-level drug dealers had packed up and left town. (wral.com)
As a backer of Proposition C , he joined the Coalition on Homelessness to strong-arm high-revenue businesses into supporting bloated city government departments to address the city's homeless problem. (city-journal.org)
The Coalition on Homelessness, which aggressively lobbied for the plan, opposes any intervention in homeless issues unless it will "provide housing and services. (city-journal.org)
State health officials and advocates of street medicine argue it fills a critical gap in health care - and could even help solve homelessness. (northdenvernews.com)
The store owner criticized the city's soft-on-crime policies implemented by Democrat lawmakers, emphasizing the prevalent drug issue and homelessness crisis that compound the problem. (yc.news)
Intense reaction against street conditions back then gave rise, in many California cities, to campaigns to end homelessness, prompting billions in new spending. (city-journal.org)
A ll three levels of government-city, county, and state-have recently expanded outlays on homelessness, much of it flowing through specialized agencies, such as the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing ($670 million FY22 budget ) and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority ($800 million FY22 budget ). (city-journal.org)
In July 2022, the longtime civil rights and civil liberties lawyer appeared alongside Mayor Eric Adams and Community Healthcare Network President Robert Hayes to announce the launch of the Street Homeless Advocacy Project (SHAP), a volunteer-staffed initiative intended to support New Yorkers experiencing homelessness and, over time, to persuade them to accept shelter. (crainsnewyork.com)
An explosion of homelessness in our major west coast cities has fueled a wave of crime, drugs and human degradation unlike anything we have seen before, and in many cases our law enforcement officials have their hands tied and are literally being prevented from cleaning up the streets. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
It would provide a home to people with a history of chronic homelessness who also have had problems with drugs or mental illness. (heraldnet.com)
Person-to-person HAV outbreaks among persons using drugs or experiencing homelessness are widespread and ongoing. (cdc.gov)
[14] , [15] People experiencing homelessness or housing instability are also more likely to engage in activities associated with increased chances of HIV acquisition or transmission, including substance use, injection drug use, and having multiple sex partners-factors that can also contribute to higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and hepatitis. (cdc.gov)

The blame was placed squarely on the shoulders of the Mayor, City Council, and City Attorney, whose collective refusal to enforce basic laws -- such as camping, injecting drugs, and defecating in public spaces -- has resulted in a predictable consequence: An uncompassionate, feckless public health policy that has cost the lives of hundreds of suffering homeless people. (acsh.org)

And an outbreak of hepatitis A among homeless people in San Diego sickened 600 and killed 20. (acsh.org)
SAN DIEGO - A 71-year-old man who veered onto a sidewalk and hit a group of homeless people encamped there faces felony charges including manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs, authorities said Monday. (fox5sandiego.com)
The crash happened just after 9 a.m. when a Volvo station wagon heading west through a tunnel under City College in the 1500 block of B Street veered onto the sidewalk and hit a group of people who were camped there, San Diego police Chief David Nisleit said at an afternoon news conference . (fox5sandiego.com)
Citizens from San Diego, where the homeless were hit especially hard by Hepatitis A, to Los Angeles, where typhoid is making a comeback, to San Francisco, where there are visible urine lines on buildings in The Tenderloin, Californians have begged , pleaded, demanded that something be done about the filthy conditions, which threaten everyone's health . (pjmedia.com)

The CDC just reported that, in 2018, an HIV outbreak in the Seattle area infected 27 heterosexual drug users, nearly quadruple the number in 2017. (acsh.org)
Outbreak of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Heterosexual Persons Who Are Living Homeless and Inject Drugs - Seattle, Washington, 2018. (acsh.org)
An annual survey overseen by HUD estimated there were 37,000-plus homeless veterans, out of a total homeless population of about 580,000, each year from 2018 to 2020. (military.com)
A June 2018 column in the San Francisco Chronicle titled "Homeless Camp Pushes SF Neighborhood to the Edge" related how a two-and-a-half-year-old had "invented a game called 'jumping over the poop'" and that "[a]nother kid across the street collected syringe caps and floated them down the stream of dirty gutter water for fun. (city-journal.org)
The city handed out 5.8 million free syringes in 2018, and that number would seem to suggest a homeless population far in excess of 28,000. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)

To counteract San Francisco's tarnished reputation, city officials recently invested $6 million in a marketing campaign titled 'Always San Francisco' aimed at attracting tourists back to the city. (yc.news)
In one, posted in February 2022, "Ben" reckoned that less than 10 percent of San Francisco's street homeless are from the city originally and that the majority have an addiction, and he explained how he supports his own habit through petty crime. (city-journal.org)

Since 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and health departments across the United States have identified several HIV clusters and outbreaks occurring predominantly among people who inject drugs (PWID). (cdc.gov)
Long-term declining trends in HIV incidence among people who inject drugs have stal ed. (cdc.gov)
This HAN provides guidance for preventing, identifying, and responding to HIV among people who inject drugs. (cdc.gov)
Although HIV incidence among people who inject drugs declined substantial y over many years, the ongoing misuse of opioids and other frequently injected substances are threatening this HIV prevention success. (cdc.gov)
The COVID-19 pandemic complicates the delivery of essential services, including services for people who inject drugs, potential y hindering further efforts to address the increase in HIV transmission. (cdc.gov)
Multiple recent clusters and outbreaks have contributed to new HIV infections among people who inject drugs. (cdc.gov)
CDC recently published a manuscript that synthesizes experiences and lessons learned from responses to six large HIV outbreaks among people who inject drugs.15 Although these outbreaks shared similarities, potential precipitating factors varied across outbreak settings. (cdc.gov)
Health departments can work with trusted community partners to effectively engage people who inject drugs with cultural y competent practices. (cdc.gov)
In the context of COVID-19, ongoing delivery of core clinical and public health services to address HIV and HCV among people who inject drugs is essential. (cdc.gov)
That encourages clients to distribute sterile injection equipment to their peers who inject drugs (also known as secondary exchange). (cdc.gov)

The version of the ordinance that the City Council approved bars homeless camps in public spaces at all times when shelter is available. (voiceofsandiego.org)
In fact, when he was asked by a reporter if he could force people with state police powers to move off the street and into a shelter, he declared, "I'm not ratcheting up a mindset of an enforcement police state. (pjmedia.com)
The city and a well-connected homeless shelter operator on West 95th street had a nice little arrangement going for months - the Department of Homeless Services had a "handshake" deal with the shelter operator to pay the operator millions, even though they didn't have a contract. (westsiderag.com)
The mega-shelter, housing up to 400 adults at 316 and 330 West 95th street, was opened on a six-month emergency contract last summer, but that contract ended in February and the DHS did not formally submit a new contract for approval by the Comptroller's office. (westsiderag.com)
We asked the city and local officials a couple of months ago how a shelter could pay out tens of millions of dollars without any oversight, but we were met with complete silence. (westsiderag.com)
The history of the funding of the homeless shelter in question is suffused with subterfuge, double talk and evasion," he added. (westsiderag.com)
The ruling came down on May 31, and lo and behold the city submitted a contract to operate the 95th street shelter just a few days later. (westsiderag.com)
DHS officials said at t he one community meeting they attended that the community was essentially fighting the shelter because of NIMBYism. (westsiderag.com)
Last Friday, city workers plowed through Camp 83 with a bulldozer, after receiving permission from the campers, who were given temporary shelter through a special arrangement with a homeless care provider who contacted City Council member and homeless advocate Mary Pat Clarke. (baltimorebrew.com)
A wealthy liberal neighborhood in San Francisco whose residents cast the most votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election is fighting against a proposal to build a new homeless shelter near their gated mansions. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Mayor London Breed has sponsored legislation to fast track a homeless shelter that would house 200 people. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
He says that as a member of the LGBTQ community, he felt threatened by other residents at a city shelter for homeless men. (ksmu.org)
He said he'd a thousand times rather be on the streets than stay in that shelter. (ksmu.org)
Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 29 - A tent city of more than 60 homeless people has taken over the grounds of Old City Hall in Berkeley, Calif., providing 24-hour shelter from the winter cold and rain and in response to proposed new laws that would criminalize such occupations. (workers.org)
The truth is, a tent costs $30 and provides shelter, storage, privacy and a certain level of security - and allows healing and peace of mind, so some of the homeless can recover from the abuses they are victims of. (workers.org)

Homeless camps are ticking time bombs of infectious disease . (acsh.org)
We see it in Phoenix, Seattle, Boise, Los Angeles, and seemingly all cities in between: makeshift camps, tents, feces, discarded drug needles, and the mentally ill living on the streets and in the public parks of our cities. (pacificlegal.org)
But here, the constitutional rights being violated involve the property rights of home and business owners adjacent to these homeless camps, who live in fear and see their properties deteriorating and businesses failing through no fault of their own. (pacificlegal.org)
The administration's more aggressive tactics to curb the spread of homeless camps - reminiscent of the "Hoovervilles" built by unemployed workers during the Great Depression - came to light when "Camp 83" was razed last week near the Madison Street entrance to the Jones Falls Expressway. (baltimorebrew.com)
They haven't bothered us before, but now they say we gotta go," said a man who identified himself as Rob and said he has been living in homeless camps under the JFX for the last three winters. (baltimorebrew.com)

PONTIAC, Mich. - Three Pontiac residents have been charged in connection with the torture and murder of a homeless man, officials said. (clickondetroit.com)
Other cities across the nation are experiencing a growth of homeless, drug-addicted residents. (usamdt.com)
Residents and city officials agree there has been an uptick in homeless people in this particularly community since the northwest extension of the light rail opened in March 2016. (northcentralnews.net)

Patton, who dons his hiking boots and jeans to make his rounds, has managed about 20 pregnancies on the streets since early 2022, and even totes a portable ultrasound in his backpack to find out how far along women are. (northdenvernews.com)

And once again, the current plans include off-street parking for over 1,000 cars with 500 spaces within a shared public garage, adjacent to CCSF's proposed Performing Arts Center project . (socketsite.com)
The City of Denver estimates that more than 1,000 spend each night in vehicles on its streets. (rvtravel.com)

While no complete count has been made of the homeless population this year, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge said in a March statement that her department's 2020 report of 37,250 homeless veterans was "devastating" enough. (military.com)
Fudge and VA Secretary Denis McDonough pledged improvements in the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing, or HUD-VASH, program to provide vouchers for rental assistance and case management from the VA for homeless veterans. (military.com)
Kinsey and Stout were among several current or formerly homeless veterans who spoke to Military.com on the homeless veteran issue -- which three previous administrations and now the Biden administration have pledged to eliminate. (military.com)
However, the VA signaled in May 2020 just how bad the situation had become during the pandemic by issuing a plea for public donations to assist homeless veterans. (military.com)
Despite its own budget of more than $240 billion, the department asked the public to write checks, donate food and contribute mobile phones to help homeless veterans and those at risk of eviction during the pandemic. (military.com)
In San Francisco, 95 percent are using drugs," says Thomas Wolf, who was once a homeless heroin user and is now a case manager for the Salvation Army, working with homeless veterans. (city-journal.org)
I don't know if everything in here is perfect … but … this is a great way to help those who are struggling, get people off the street and help our veterans who are homeless. (heraldnet.com)

It reported on the unforgivably pathetic state of affairs facing the city -- homeless people literally dying on the streets from drug overdoses, exposure, and untreated health problems while public health officials do absolutely nothing. (acsh.org)
The estimated 93,331 deaths from drug overdoses last year, a record high, represent the sharpest annual increase in at least three decades, and compare with an estimated toll of 72,151 deaths in 2019, according to provisional overdose-drug data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death in the US, surpassing car accidents and gunshot wounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (rt.com)
To address the overdose death issue, we have been working to increase access to naloxone [antidote for heroin overdoses] for first responders and individuals close to those with opioid drug disorders," said Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy told the committee. (rt.com)

In the West Coast seaport city, homeless people are seen slumped over in the streets and were still openly shooting up drugs , even after the city's officials chose not to make public drug use legal. (drugcartels.news)

There were more than 580,000 homeless Americans last year, and around 40 percent of them were unsheltered and sleeping in their cars , tents or on sidewalks. (naturalnews.com)

The federal government announced earlier this month that it would be providing help to the state of California as well as five major American cities to bring homeless people into permanent housing. (naturalnews.com)
California is the place where nearly 50% of the nation's homeless population have congregated to kick back, live on the beach, collect a check, and use and abuse drugs with impunity. (pjmedia.com)
Many retail chains have closed stores in California due to escalating crime and increased drug use. (usamdt.com)
The addicted and homeless population growth is not confined to California by any means. (usamdt.com)
Carl DeMaio, Chairman of Reform California, attributes the rise in homeless populations-and drug addiction alike-to be due to a series of failed policies that California officials, both city and state, put into place. (usamdt.com)
Crespo, 39, is among a growing number of homeless pregnant women in California whose lives have been overrun by hard drug use, a deadly coping mechanism many use to endure trauma and mental illness. (northdenvernews.com)
Street medicine isn't new, but it's getting a jolt in California, which is leading the charge nationally to deliver full-service medical care and behavioral health treatment to homeless people wherever they are. (northdenvernews.com)
Even the liberal media , which always praised the humanism of democratic treatment of "innocent" street robbers, have experienced the full scale of crime in California. (mercenaries.media)
At that time, there was no official partnership in place, but PAARI put the department in contact with Bella Monte Recovery Center in California, where the woman was able to complete intensive in-patient treatment. (myeverettnews.com)

REDDING, Calif. - Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. (northdenvernews.com)
He told FOX&Friends drug dealers and homeless people were back on the streets within a day of the conference coming to a close last Friday. (whatreallyhappened.com)

Due to the many negative connotations attached to the use of "street" as a modifier, the use of the term in English has been criticized as fostering stereotypes of a population easily roused to violence. (wikipedia.org)
The city's streets are filled with thousands of homeless individuals, and drug abuse continues to plague the population. (yc.news)
The option of remote work and visible signs of urban decay have deterred their return, exacerbating the situation and resulting in a sharp rise in overdose deaths among the homeless population. (yc.news)
In the early months of Covid-19, Los Angeles contracted with a portable restroom company to facilitate better hygiene among the street population. (city-journal.org)
According to one report, it is home to more than 28,000 homeless people, and that would make San Francisco the city with the third largest homeless population in the United States. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
There is no question that the homeless population is a difficult population to deal with," said Craig Tripkin with CASS. (northcentralnews.net)
The proposed general fund budget notes that there are six vacant positions in the Human Services Department, and rather that filling those positions at a cost of about $500,000, the city instead proposes to create specialized outreach teams to work on the streets making contact with the homeless population and trying to match them with services, whether from the city or through partner social service and nonprofit organizations. (northcentralnews.net)

Californians are being told, in effect, that they're mean and nasty for wanting the drugging, sleeping, pooping, peeing homeless to shove off. (pjmedia.com)
Californians understand that rents in their state are punishingly expensive and that some people who might have found housing elsewhere have wound up living on the street here. (city-journal.org)

The city's protocol calls on the police to try to avoiding making arrests during homeless evictions and notes that "plainclothes officers are ideal. (baltimorebrew.com)

To their credit, city officials on both sides of the aisle want to address the crisis, but the federal court that controls the western states - the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals - has made it difficult for them to do so. (pacificlegal.org)
Last week, cities from all over the West asked the Supreme Court to fix what the Ninth Circuit broke: city officials' ability to address the homeless crisis to protect private property, make the streets safer, and get the mentally ill and drug-addicted homeless help they desperately need. (pacificlegal.org)
The case is called Johnson v. Grants Pass , and it's a follow-up to another Ninth Circuit mistake called Martin v. City of Boise , when five years ago this same court began interfering with cities seeking to address the homeless crisis. (pacificlegal.org)
The Ninth Circuit's unworkable and confusing rule prevents local and state elected officials from addressing the crisis in a way that protects the public - including homeless men and women. (pacificlegal.org)
In a crisis jurisdiction, one cannot use streets and sidewalks without passing by-and thus ignoring-the obvious suffering of one's fellow man. (city-journal.org)

That drug dealing, investigators say, resulted in murders in our streets, like a summer 2017 killing in north St. Louis. (fox2now.com)
Recent numbers indicate a 30 percent jump in people living on the streets since 2017 , and the official count is roughly 9,780. (city-journal.org)

Brian Byrd stands in front of his tent with his dog on 16th Street in the East Village on June 14, 2023. (voiceofsandiego.org)
Russian forces are actively thwarting Kiev's attempts to penetrate their defense lines and continue to reduce Ukraine's military capacity," said the senior Russian defense official as quoted by RT, Tuesday (21/11/2023). (whatreallyhappened.com)

Multnomah County, where Portland is located, has seen its homeless numbers reach 5,228, which is 1,200 more than the number recorded in 2019. (naturalnews.com)
Locals are also leaving en masse, yes, so much so that public transportation ridership has plummeted 65% and cell phone activity is only 32% of what it was last peaceful 2019. (mercenaries.media)

Drug-overdose deaths in the U.S. surged nearly 30% in 2020, the tragic result of a deadlier supply and the destabilizing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to preliminary federal data and public health officials. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Drug overdose deaths were already at an all-time high coming into 2020. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
The Obama administration, recognizing the public health implications of heroin addiction and overdose deaths, has brought increased attention to the problem and been pursuing a federal response to the epidemic by supporting education about drug use and addressing addiction problems. (rt.com)

Why can't Berkeley designate a spot where the homeless can set up tents and live through the winter? (workers.org)

The government occasionally took steps to prosecute or punish officials who committed abuses, including within the security services, but impunity involving civilian officials and some members of the state security forces was a problem. (state.gov)
The government made intermittent but limited attempts to investigate and prosecute officials accused of current abuses, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government. (state.gov)

The Everett Police Department became the first law enforcement agency in Washington State to place an individual in treatment using PAARI last fall when the department's embedded social worker encountered a homeless woman on the street who was seeking drug treatment. (myeverettnews.com)
As first responders, we are seeing an increase of people addicted to drugs and deal with them on a daily basis" said Captain John DeRousse, who oversees the department's community outreach efforts. (myeverettnews.com)

With drugs consistently coming into the U.S. across the open border, it's no wonder that the addiction problem continues to grow. (usamdt.com)
We must start educating our children about the dangers of drug use and addiction earlier than ever before. (usamdt.com)
Despite what homeless activists may claim or what self-reported data indicate, the majority of the homeless are there because they have a substance addiction or suffer psychological troubles (and very often both), not because they're down on their luck. (city-journal.org)
I know this happened because of my addiction," Crespo said recently, just after a nurse injected her on the streets of downtown Redding with a powerful antipsychotic medication. (northdenvernews.com)
The biggest gateway to heroin is an addiction to prescription drugs. (rt.com)
Some are people who have fallen on hard times, some have mental health and drug addiction issues. (northcentralnews.net)
There are so many people hurting in our community, struggling with the addiction of drugs. (heraldnet.com)
PAARI is a partnership among national business leaders, healthcare organizations, the public sector, and educators, that aims to provide police officers with additional tools in the battle against the disease of drug addiction. (myeverettnews.com)

The city's new repressive laws would make it a violation to place personal belongings "covering more than two square feet" on the sidewalk during the day and would force a homeless person with a shopping cart to move it to a different block once every hour in daytime. (workers.org)

With the help of social workers embedded with the specialized team, officers are able to look for ways outside of the criminal justice system to offer help and improve the quality of life for individuals on the streets. (myeverettnews.com)
Over the years, the plot had been used by many homeless individuals and groups looking for a place to stay, and the owner did not chal enge these settlements. (lu.se)

Riley said there are more than 600,000 heroin users in the US today, and agency officials say the figure is likely to be undercounted, as it is based on a household survey and wouldn't account for all heroin users among homeless populations. (rt.com)
The sheer volume of heroin that is coming into the country and the number of people turning to it has been driving the levels of drug abuse up, according to analysts. (rt.com)
As far as distributing the heroin, that would be [evident by] the gun battles that are happening on our city streets and in neighborhoods that expose innocent people to the gunfire. (rt.com)

Homeless advocate Pamela Atkinson said there are still drug deals that go down in the neighborhood, but not nearly to the level of what was seen leading up to the operation. (wral.com)

I told the story that at 15 I was briefly homeless in downtown's streets, on drugs, sleeping along the "Concrete River," in abandoned cars, at all-night movie theaters, on church pews, behind dumpsters. (luisjrodriguez.com)
Kate Bridell, director of the Office of Homeless Programs, spoke briefly at last night's hearing. (baltimorebrew.com)

Many homeless Americans are law-abiding citizens that have just had a tough break. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)

Cox said some of those who have been spotted in other states have links to drug cartels. (wral.com)
The DEA and other experts see a connection between drug cartels and small street gangs in local towns like Chesapeake, Virginia. (rt.com)

The federal government expanded reimbursement for street medicine this month, making it easier for doctors and nurses around the country to get paid for delivering care to homeless patients outside of hospitals and clinics. (northdenvernews.com)

I just drove through the Tenderloin, and it is just a lot of drug heads, drug dealers, and they're all out, they're all out in the neighborhood. (whatreallyhappened.com)

Vaccination of homeless persons facilitates integration of HepA vaccine into routine preventive services. (cdc.gov)

Before her death in January 2020, Cathy Boone had been living on the streets for years, struggling with drug abuse and mental illness. (preachingtoday.com)

Drug deaths now outnumber deaths from gunshot wounds (over 33,600) and motor vehicle crashes (over 32,700) in the United States, according to the CDC. (rt.com)

You're trying to get these people off the street, but you've got people every day becoming homeless," Irving said. (voiceofsandiego.org)
Despite these pleas from the public, little to nothing has been done to get people off the streets and enforce the law to discourage even more from coming. (pjmedia.com)
And we have the capacity to encourage people off the streets. (pjmedia.com)
We have existing rules and regulations" to force people off the streets? (pjmedia.com)
He didn't say that emergency declarations at the state and national levels give him more latitude to force people off the streets and riverbeds. (pjmedia.com)
He said they "have existing rules and regulations" to get people off the street. (pjmedia.com)
Mayor Breed would like to get a lot of these homeless people off of the streets, but finding a place to put them has been problematic. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
He said he wants to get people off the streets, but doesn't like how Everett went about its plan. (heraldnet.com)

Medieval" isn't too harsh a word to describe what it's like to live in one's own filth in the street. (acsh.org)
Giving them information and ensuring that it's okay to stand against the crowd can give them the tools they need to choose to live a drug-free lifestyle. (usamdt.com)
But why do they have to live on the street like that ? (city-journal.org)
D oes anyone who studies the RV lifestyle believe that the legions of America's poor and disadvantaged who live in dilapidated RVs on city streets will suddenly find better housing and move on? (rvtravel.com)
About 3,500 homeless people live in them, including 100 children. (rvtravel.com)

The inadequacy of city officials, including Mayor London Breed and Governor Gavin Newsom, in addressing the crime problems has led to mounting public pressure. (yc.news)

An artist's rendering shows plans for the Safe Streets housing project designated for Berkshire Drive. (heraldnet.com)
Everett has spearheaded the project through its Safe Streets plan . (heraldnet.com)
As part of the City's comprehensive Safe Streets plan, last fall, Chief Templeman created a new Community Outreach and Enforcement Team (COET) that balances social outreach and relationship building with criminal enforcement when necessary. (myeverettnews.com)

Being a civil rights and civil liberties lawyer for 53 years now, I've mainly been the outsider suing government officials, especially mayors like [Ed] Koch and Giuliani. (crainsnewyork.com)
Because for so long I've been comfortable being the outsider … dealing with government officials is extremely frustrating. (crainsnewyork.com)
A retiring female cop grabbed the opportunity to expose the "spineless and corrupt" Seattle Police Department (SPD) chief and local government officials via a scathing and brutal exit letter that she wrote instead of a "controlled" and mandatory exit survey. (drugcartels.news)

Security forces and law enforcement officials undertook some training to increase respect for human rights. (state.gov)

Crespo, who was abused as a child, was addicted to fentanyl and meth - a daily habit she found impossible to kick while living homeless. (northdenvernews.com)

A police drug recognition expert gave Voss a field sobriety test and determined that he was under the influence of drugs, according to Nisleit. (fox5sandiego.com)
Police said the body of Tobby Robert Farrington, 50, of Pontiac, was found March 25 in a grassy area in the 100 block of South Merrimac Street, near Terry Lake. (clickondetroit.com)
The Liberia National Police (LNP) maintains internal security, with assistance from the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) and other civilian security forces. (state.gov)

The reason is no longer the COVID-19 pandemic or the desire to save money, but simply the inability to ensure the safety of officials amid the chaos in San Francisco. (mercenaries.media)

We have other people that came here because they heard there was free housing and drugs were cheap and it was a great place to come and party,' Cox said. (wral.com)
In rare cases, street medicine teams have gotten some of the state's sickest and most vulnerable people healthy and into housing, which supporters point to as incremental but meaningful progress. (northdenvernews.com)
The guidelines were given to the City Council's Housing and Community Development Committee following brief testimony by Kate Bridell, director of the Office of Homeless Programs. (baltimorebrew.com)
Newsom's Proposed Budget Keeps Most Housing, Homeless Funding Intact. (chpc.net)
S.F. homeless housing group aims to build homes for half the usual cost. (chpc.net)
EVERETT - Snohomish County has agreed to award $1.6 million to Everett's low-barrier housing project , putting nervous city officials at greater ease. (heraldnet.com)
He has quarrelled with Stephanson, who is retiring soon, about the homeless housing project and other issues. (heraldnet.com)
It was unclear whether Wright, like Sullivan, was referring to how officials in Everett went about deciding where to put the housing project. (heraldnet.com)

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