Homelessness up 50% in NYC over last year

At one of New York’s homeless shelters, RT witnessed a lottery, but it was not a lottery to win some money. Dozens of people were patiently waiting to find out if they would “win” a roof over their heads for the night.

They were not criminals and they were not drunks. Their “flaw” was that they didn’t have a home. The shelter they were hoping to get into for the night was packed.

Lately, the chances of getting a bed in New York City have been slimmer than ever. Homelessness in the city has sky-rocketed by 50 per cent.

Well, the obvious solution is to lock them up.

Homeless park dwellers refuse city’s assistance

SF Examiner, 10/14

“I can tell you there are fewer homeless people, but does that mean we have cleaned up the park? No,” said police Officer Bob Ramos, who is part of the morning outreach-team sweeps. “It just means that the people we cited realize we are coming back again and they have hidden deeper.”

The lingering homeless residents tend to fall into two categories — they are mentally ill or they are substance abusers who are chronically cited, but never appear in court, said Dariush Kayhan, the mayor’s adviser on homelessness.

Kayhan said the outreach team is working with the Public Health Department to be more aggressive in placing the mentally ill homeless residents into a conservator program where they are brought into locked facilities and given involuntary treatment under the watch of the courts.

Take the solstice back from the Christians!

Homeless Memorial Day Resolution Introduced to Congress

National Coalition For The Homeless

On or around the longest night of the year, December 21, the National Coalition for the Homeless and National Health Care for the Homeless Council hold memorial services for homeless individuals who have died from causes related to their homelessness. Throughout the state of Florida, this important day is being recognized, along with over 200 other local municipalities, organizations, and statewide organizations throughout the United States. With the support of the National Coalition for the Homeless, National Consumer Advisory Board, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council; National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day brings attention to the tragedy of homelessness.

Gotta wonder how many of the below are ex-Mormons

15,600 considered homeless in Utah this year

Of those who are homeless statewide, 43 percent are people in families, which is the fastest growing segment of the homeless population.

Almost 12,000 school-aged children statewide are considered homeless, according to the State Office of Education.

“This is the highest concentration of homeless school children observed in the past five years,” according to the report.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder..

Blood-sucking ‘vampires’ arrested for attacking homeless man with knife in Arizona, police say

Aaron Homer, 24, and Amanda Williamson, 21, allegedly stabbed Robert Maley, 25, last week in their apartment.

Maley, who was also arrested over a probation violation, told police Homer and Williamson were into “vampire stuff and paganism,” and he had allowed them to drink his blood in the past.

On the night of the attack, police were called to the couple’s home and found a trail of blood leaving the apartment.