[ad_1] A new strategy has emerged from housing radicals in the Seattle-area: holding hotels hostage with fringe demands to government officials. The subterfuge starts simply enough. They pay for rooms for one night under false pretenses, refuse to leave, and post a press release to Twitter with their demands, hopingContinue Reading
[ad_1] At least seven people were in custody late Sunday after homeless activists, some reportedly armed with hatchets and knives, “forcibly” occupied the lobby and 17 rooms at the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia, Wash, according to officials. The activists were with a group calling itself Oly Housing Now. They occupiedContinue Reading
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[ad_1] Sara Kruzan was in her cell when she received a fax that changed her life. After spending some of her teenage years, all of her 20s and much of her 30s in prison for killing her trafficker, Kruzan learned that California’s attorney general had acknowledged that she was a victim ofContinue Reading
[ad_1] Eli Kirshbaum | Jan 26, 2021 Representative Jim Dunnigan is hoping to give homeless Utahns “a chance for a better life” with a bill he is sponsoring this session. Dunnigan’s HB 34, which recently passed through the Utah House Health and Human Services Committee, would create a respite careContinue Reading
[ad_1] Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Amy Clarke, director of student services and special education at Middletown Public Schools, gives teachers a training about social emotional learning for the fall semester on Thursday, August 20 at Middletown High School. Meeting students’ social and emotional needs became more crucial after many studentsContinue Reading
[ad_1] FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Human trafficking can happen anywhere, at any time, including here in northeast Indiana. A 2019 report from the Polaris Project shows there were 157 confirmed trafficking cases in Indiana. Although regional data was not available, a heat map within the report shows a concentratedContinue Reading
[ad_1] LIHU‘E — In a virtual meeting last week, the state House Human Services, Health and Homelessness committees discussed the current state of homelessness in Hawai‘i. “Currently, homelessness is a crisis within a crisis,” said Ashton Varner, County Housing Agency (CHA) Homeless Programs coordinator. “The pandemic required homeless-service providers toContinue Reading
[ad_1] Kim Webb picks up several dinners and take-along bags during one of The Sheperds Office’s distributions of free food and goods. Ms. Webb is trying to make ends meet, living on her job in the fast food business. Delaware State News/Glenn Rolfe Editor’s note: This is the first inContinue Reading
[ad_1] January 13, 2021 San Diego County will apply for $12 million in state funding to provide housing for homeless people with mental illnesses, it was announced Wednesday. The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to apply for No Place Like Home support, with that money available as soon as thisContinue Reading