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Palm Springs food ware ordinance takes effect
Provisions in the ordinance include a ban on the sale and use of polystyrene food containers such as foam, a ban on plastic straws and stirrers, a ban on single-use plastic bags for takeout orders and a requirement that reusable food ware be used for on-site dining.
Palm Springs food ware ordinance takes effect
‘I’m in the fucking drive-thru’
Animal cruelty bill advances despite opposition from pet advocates
Who Will Win Best Actor at the 2022 Oscars?
Violent crime doubles near Queen Anne homeless shelter
Now even the steaks are being locked up!
Indian couple sues son, daughter-in-law for not giving them grandkids
Son, 13, was accused of SEXUAL HARASSMENT for refusing to refer to classmate by 'they/them' pronouns
What Happened When Homeless Men Moved Into a Liberal Neighborhood
The guests arrived at the Lucerne Hotel, two blocks from Central Park, carrying their belongings, stepping off buses and filling the hotel’s empty rooms, which typically cost more than $200 a night.
They were not tourists nor business travelers but residents of homeless shelters whom the city sent to the Lucerne to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the crowded shelter system. Over three days, 283 men moved into the hotel.
Their arrival has become a flash point and a test of values for the Upper West Side — a neighborhood with a reputation as one of the most liberal enclaves in New York and in the entire country.
One day after the men began moving into the Lucerne, on West 79th Street, a private Facebook group — Upper West Siders for Safer Streets — was created by residents who were up in arms. The group has more than 8,700 members.
Many commenters said the men menaced pedestrians, urinated and defecated on the street and used and sold drugs in the open.
In interviews, some longtime residents said the hotel’s conversion into a shelter had dimmed the quality of life and evoked memories of an era when the neighborhood was filled with single room occupancy hotels that helped fuel crime.
What Happened When Homeless Men Moved Into a Liberal Neighborhood
LI residents rally against plan to turn old hotel into homeless family shelter
Dozens of homeless men into Brooklyn hotels
Navigation Center for Homeless Opens in Fullerton
Residents threaten to sue Mayor if he doesn't move 13,000 homeless people
Homeless man cracks woman's skull with a baseball bat
San Francisco pays people to be homeless
Black woman, 33, 'used $15,000 pandemic relief loan to put hit on TSA agent
Woman kicked down station stairs while being smashing by a HAMMER
Gym Tells Guests to Stop Having Sex
“So just have sex in the women’s locker room,” another commenter helpfully observed.
Gym Tells Guests to Stop Having Sex
Gay man loses seven-year battle against Belfast bakery
Palm Springs Is Going To Have A Homophobic Congressman?
BEAU BUTLER TALKS POTENTIAL THREESOME WITH ANDY COHEN
EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF CUM ARE CLOGGING COLLEGE SHOWER DRAINS
Shelter for LGBTQ adults is 'a nightmare
Preacher says he hopes “every single homosexual dies”
School board member’s child got a scary death threat over trans student policy
Virginia house passes first bill to roll back LGBTQ rights
Ban GSA, kids should just go to church instead
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti signs order criminalizing homelessness, with violators facing possible fines of up to $1,000
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently signed into law an ordinance that criminalizes homelessness in most parts of the city, a motion that has drawn just as much fierce support by some as it has opposition by others.
The law specifies certain times and locations where it will be 'unlawful for a person to sit, lie, or sleep, or to store, use, maintain, or place personal property in the public right-of-way'.
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti signs order criminalizing homelessness
Mom and her disabled son, 3, face living in her car after 'landlord almost doubled rent to $800'
Forget the American Dream
No home, mentally ill: California case shows system’s flaws
New York activist becomes internet star by rifling through chain stores' trash
California promised 100% rent forgiveness for struggling tenants. Most are still waiting
Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom rental
‘It’s growing worse’
Some residents of tolerant San Francisco say they’ve had enough
Homelessness is so bad that the rich are being asked to house them
Hollywood consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest
“The world has failed us,” Correa said in 2013 as he announced a lifting of the moratorium on oil drilling in Yasuní.
The move to drill hundreds of new wells in the national park requires the building of roads and other infrastructure that is likely to accelerate deforestation, environmentalists say. Construction of an initial road inside the park is now less than 1,300 feet from the “no-go” zone designed to protect the uncontacted tribes, according to the report.
Crude reality
Toxic Things Celebrities Do
LA residents say homelessness crisis is city's biggest problem
I WANT GUN FOR PROTECTION
Beverly Hills Hires More Officers And Increases Patrols
Philadelphia now has more murders than NYC and LA and a DOZEN major US cities
Jogging is only good for you if the air is clean
Leo says his new movie is about about science denial and climate change (LOL)
Glute pumping, lip plumping, skin smoothing
'Somebody gift these people some vasectomies
Angry Napa Valley residents go to war with startup that is buying luxury homes in exclusive neighborhoods across US to sell as timeshares and enraging wealthy neighbors
Pacaso, founded in October by executives from the real estate company Zillow, aims to do to second homes what Airbnb did to hotels and Uber did to taxis. It targets luxury neighborhoods slightly off the usual tourist trails.
Critics say it changes the nature of a neighborhood; the company insists it is making exclusive communities more accessible and, by allowing eight people to share ownership of one home, reducing the intense demand on housing stock.
Angry Napa Valley
Israeli food truck is BANNED from Philadelphia food festival: Organizers accused of bowing to anti-Semitism
San Francisco is paying $60,000 PER TENT for a homeless encampment and now city officials want an additional $20 million to extend the program for two years
One person is shot dead and several injured in robbery gone wrong at the Hollywood Hills home of Fashion Nova CEO Richard Saghian
Homeless man is arrested over ten-day spree of attacks on women in Chicago including doctoral student, 31, who was stabbed to death in broad daylight as crime continues to surge across America
UK neighbors cut tree in half over bird poop dispute: ‘We were absolutely distraught’
North Carolina councilman calls for people to be FINED and charged with a misdemeanor crime for giving food or money directly to the homeless
A councilman in North Carolina has been slammed after he suggested making it a misdemeanor crime to donate food and money directly to homeless people.
Tariq Bokhari?, who serves as a representative for Charlotte's 6th district, floated the radical idea during a council business meeting on Monday.
'People aren't getting it and they're still bringing food and money and resources directly to the folks that are out there right now,' Bokhari stated during a discussion about strategies to combat Charlotte's homelessness problem.
North Carolina councilman calls for people to be FINED and charged with a misdemeanor crime for giving food or money directly to the homeless
More than 4 million Americans face eviction amid worsening housing crisis
More than 4 million people say they fear being evicted or foreclosed upon in the coming months, just as two studies released Wednesday found that the nation's housing availability and affordability crisis is expected to worsen significantly following the pandemic.
The studies come as a federal eviction moratorium is set to expire at the end of the month. The moratorium has kept many tenants owing back rent housed. Making matters worse, the tens of billions of dollars in federal emergency rental assistance that was supposed to solve the problem has not reached most tenants.
More than 4 million Americans face eviction amid worsening housing crisis
EIGHT THOUSAND homeless people will be moved out of New York's hotels and back into shelters after wealthy residents' angry backlash at the city over their new neighbors
Landlords skirt COVID-19 eviction bans, using intimidation and tricks to boot tenants
Cash-strapped renters nationwide say their landlords tried to skirt COVID-19 eviction moratoriums by changing locks, removing trash containers so waste piled up and – in one case – attempting to unbolt the front door right off an apartment.
They told state attorneys general that they were kicked out of their homes after landlords accused them of violating tenant rules, like smoking cigarettes inside their units or failing to take the hitches off of their mobile homes.
Like Heidi Stach, who lost her job due to the pandemic and fell behind on rent, they assumed they were protected. But Stach says her landlord found an end-run to Wisconsin’s eviction ban: Instead of starting a court process, he sent her a notice to vacate this summer because he was not renewing her lease.
Landlords skirt COVID-19 eviction bans, using intimidation and tricks to boot tenants
Trailer Park Landlord Allegedly Threatened Tenants With Rent Hike If Biden Wins
A Colorado landlord allegedly sent the tenants of his trailer park a letter warning of big rent increases if Joe Biden is elected president.
“Please understand IF Joe Biden is elected as our next President, everything you do and have to pay for will change completely,” the landlord of the Fort Morgan trailer park allegedly wrote, according to a letter obtained by Denver NBC station KUSA. “Everything will be increased. Like paying ALOT more in taxes, utilities, gasoline, groceries, new permits, fees and regulations…everything! This also means YOUR RENT will be increased to cover these expenses. Most likely, rent would DOUBLE in price!”
Trailer Park Landlord Allegedly Threatened Tenants With Rent Hike If Biden Wins
Landlords Challenge U.S. Eviction Ban and Continue to Oust Renters
After foot spotted hanging from grocery store ceiling, police find man living in the rafters
A man who had been living in the rafters of a Raley's supermarket in Fernley, Nevada was arrested on Sept. 30 after employees noticed he had fallen through the ceiling, according to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office.
After foot spotted hanging from grocery store ceiling, police find man living in the rafters
Santa Ana provides new data that Orange County is ‘dumping’ homeless
Much of Orange County is transporting homeless people into Santa Ana, placing an unfair burden on that city to address the county’s homelessness crisis, city officials allege in court documents filed Monday.
The filing marks the city’s latest effort seeking legal relief over this issue. And this time, officials have some numbers and additional data that they hope will prove their point that many other cities in the county are “dumping” their homeless in Santa Ana.
“We now have better evidence that the county did not stop this practice. It’s just being done in other ways,” Santa Ana City Manager Kristine Ridge said.
Santa Ana officials and residents have long complained that they’ve become a dumping ground for the homeless.
Santa Ana officials said transfers from other communities have led to to a disproportionate number of homeless people in their city. From 2017 to 2019, homelessness in Orange County increased by 43 %; but in Santa Ana, homelessness increased by 77 %, according to the lawsuit. As of April 2019, more than 25 % of the county’s homeless lived in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana provides new data that Orange County is ‘dumping’ homeless
KKK Flag Displayed on White House Barn Outrages Tennessee Residents
'It's vile, but this is the new norm': Urinating woman is seen 'performing sex act on a man' on Upper West Side street as the upmarket neighborhood experiences surge in crime after Mayor de Blasio moved 13,000 homeless into the area
State regulators investigate Long Island bar that promoted a Super Bowl-style betting pool on whether Chicago or New York City would have more shootings on Labor Day weekend
Renters Are Being Forced From Their Homes Despite Eviction Moratoriums Meant to Protect Them
Millions of people in America are under shelter-in-place orders requiring them to stay home whenever possible, but a growing number don’t have that luxury. Their landlords are kicking them out for not paying the rent, despite moratoriums on evictions in more than 30 states and dozens of cities.
Some landlords change the locks when tenants are out. Others cut off power or utilities, or let themselves into tenants’ apartments and throw their stuff onto the street. Landlords also take the doors off the hinges if tenants won’t leave, says George Donnelly, an attorney at The Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia. In most cases, experts say, the evictions are illegal, since landlords are required to go through the courts to evict tenants, and most courts are not currently processing eviction orders. In addition, sheriffs or marshals, not landlords, are supposed to enforce eviction orders, including supervising removal companies to carry away a tenant’s belongings if the renter refuses to leave.
Time
There’s Been a Spike in People Dying at Home in Several Cities. That Suggests Coronavirus Deaths Are Higher Than Reported.
Should Homeless Shelters Serve Only Vegan Food?
Serving plant-based meals in shelters would alleviate health concerns about serving animal products to vulnerable people. Evidence is growing for the many health benefits of plant-based diets, and organizations like schools and hospitals are making the switch (and making the news for it). Last year, New York passed a law requiring that all state hospitals offer a plant-based option at every meal. The American College of Cardiology is encouraging every hospital in the country to follow suit. A shelter’s decision about what types of meals to serve should be made by consensus, one that includes the members of society who require the shelter’s services. Food-insecure people are especially vulnerable to adverse health effects; it’s important that they, too, have access to nutritious fare.
Sentient Media
Homeless centers say they have been forced to shut in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19
NEW YORK, March 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus is causing the closure of homeless centers across the United States, putting LGBT+ people without housing at increased risk of suicide, health complications or hate crimes, according to homelessness experts.
Homeless centers said they have been forced to shut their doors in order to follow safety precautions over social distancing as enforced by international governments and health organizations.
There are about 10,000 shelters for homeless people in the United States with an estimated 250 LGBT+ centers, largely in metropolitan areas, according to The National Coalition for the Homeless, a network of homelessness advocates.
There are currently no estimates on the exact number of shelters closed in recent weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak.
TRF News