23+ hour, 49+ min ago  (653+ words) When a reporter asked Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt about his plans to tackle homelessness, Pratt had a brusque response: "They're not homeless. They're drug addicts." "They are choosing to be on the street because they want to do…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (260+ words) Los Angeles voters are sounding off on the city's homelessness crisis ahead of the upcoming mayoral and gubernatorial races, with many saying they've lost faith in local leaders after years of promises and billions in spending. "Zero progress," one woman…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (465+ words) ASIA: Less than a decade ago, Hong Kong's "cardboard grannies" were featured in the news, and people across the globe were shocked to learn about many elderly poor, especially women, collecting cardboard long hours each day to support themselves, in…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (501+ words) By popular thinking, increases in demand cause economic growth. According to such thought, whenever the economy falls into a recession what is required is to strengthen demand. Since government is seen as an important part of total demand, what is…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (312+ words) A tiny home project in Watsonville is giving people experiencing homelessness both housing and hope for a better future. For Rosie Lopez, Hope Village, as it's called, saved her life. "Because I had just lost my brother, you know, and…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (426+ words) [The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years edited by Joseph T. Salerno (Mises Institute, 2026; v +256 pp.)] The Mises Institute held a conference in 2024 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Human Action in 1949; and, in the present volume,…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (405+ words) How are LA's homeless to escape addiction and poverty if the nonprofit organizations that are supposed to help them are mired in drugs themselves? That's the urgent question after a bust Thursday that saw Christopher Johnson of People Assisting the…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (468+ words) If anyone was looking for some easy money, move to San Francisco. It may have sky-high rent, and terrible governance, but if you decide to go homeless, you could get a startling $620 a month from the city government via a…...

1+ week, 45+ min ago  (199+ words) Do men who identify as women really threaten women fleeing male violence? That's the raging debate in a regulatory proceeding on "equal access to housing," prompted by President Trump's Day One. .. HUD proposal to end women's shelter admission Posted By:…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (589+ words) (The Center Square) - The Seattle City Council approved Mayor Katie Wilson's plan Tuesday to increase the capacity of emergency shelters like tiny home villages, but not without some disagreement over how the expanded housing for the unhoused should be managed....