Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' strategy to employ wealthy residents to help fund housing for the homeless is garnering support from local business leaders who say it might be the only solution to effectively tackle the growing crisis. During her State of the City address on Monday, the Democratic mayor highlighted the city's struggle to house over 40,000 homeless people, declaring that "the crisis on our streets is nothing less than a disaster." Bass touted the success of her signature Inside...
Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has suggested that “more fortunate” residents help fund housing for the homeless as part of a new campaign to tackle the city’s ongoing homelessness crisis. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during a press conference to announce new efforts to curb recent retail thefts at City Hall in Los Angeles,...
Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles tells CNN’s Dana Bash that “people are willing and ready to leave the streets” and “we have destroyed the myth that people choose to be on the streets and that they won’t leave.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The cries to solve Albuquerque’s homeless problem can be heard from the streets of Central Avenue to the halls of the Roundhouse. And the city has plenty of would-be solutions in the works. But one local attorney says, there's a better way to go about it. The 62-page plan is set to []
A new program is coming to Sarnia in the fall to help high school students with disabilities join the workforce after they graduate.
New York City Mayor Eric Leroy Adams loves feigning like he’s adjacent to Hip-Hop, even if his record shows that just isn’t the case. Nevertheless, Adams recently sat down for an interview with the popular Drink Champs podcast, and the reaction has been less than enthusiastic. That’s being kind as rapper NORE and his outlet are getting slandered on X (formerly known as Twitter) for platforming the NYPD cop turned Brooklyn Borough President and now NYC Mayor. Recently, Adams appeared on The...
A gym in West Springfield helped raise money for a local educational program on Sunday. The event was hosted by CrossFit Rift Valley and Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni.
While in Washington, D.C., this week, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi plans to lobby the Biden administration for more federal funds for vouchers designed to reduce homelessness — and prevent more families from becoming homeless.
Mayor Rick Blangiardi leaves Friday for Washington D.C. To meet with officials from the Biden administration where he's expected to ask for more federal funding to help tackle homelessness in Honolulu.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and several other California mayors visited Sacramento to urge the state for more funding to address homelessness.
Mayor Adams has faced mounting criticism from parents and officials who say his funding cuts are starving popular early childhood education programs. Adams said his administration had restored a half-billion dollars in funding to the education budget. But the department still faces a remaining fiscal cliff of $500 million. [ more › ]
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass implored wealthy residents of the city to donate money to purchase property that can be used to house the city's homeless population, which has continued to grow.