Residents from public housing towers across Melbourne attended the forum, passing a resolution to form the Committee and take up a struggle against Labor’s attack, carried out in the interests of big business.
Amid a worsening housing crisis, municipal councils in Brisbane are banning homeless people from their parks.
Last Monday, a shocking accident occurred in Berlin, Germany, which once again highlighted the inhumane living conditions of the homeless of that city.
Tateona Williams, 29, lost two of her children as she and her family sheltered in a van parked in a casino garage on February 10.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reported that in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver, a full-time minimum-wage worker would need to work 138 to 141 hours per month to afford a basic two-bedroom unit, leaving nothing for other necessities like food, utilities and transportation.
The working class must reject half-measures and lies and demand a full accounting of the scale and depth of the homeless crisis in the city of Detroit and across the country.
Funeral services are being held Thursday for A’millah Currie, 2, and Darnell Currie Jr., 9. The children froze to death February 10 while sheltering with their homeless family inside a van parked at a Detroit casino garage.
Tateona Williams, a 29-year-old unemployed medical assistant, said her repeated pleas for assistance for her children were ignored by city and state authorities.
On Thursday, January 16, 49-year-old Cornelius Taylor was killed in Atlanta, Georgia, when the tent he was sleeping in was razed by a front loader ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.
The fire drove approximately 200 working class residents into the frigid street in the middle of the night from a building owned by a landlord once rated as the “worst” in the city.
The latest report shows an 18 percent rise in 2024, with only a trickle of federal aid compared to the hundreds of billions wasted on war.
The hailing of Penny as a hero is part of a right-wing campaign directed against the homeless and the mentally ill, hundreds of whom have no place to live other than New York’s massive subway system.
After buying a homeless man a stack of pancakes with her own money, IHOP management fired Victoria Hughes, an employee of 13 years.
Fifty-four percent of these children spent some time “doubled up,” or unavoidably sharing the housing of others, while another 41 percent are in families that sought space in city shelters, leaving over 7,000 children who may have spent some nights on the streets or the subway system.
The role of DSA members in the Los Angeles City Council is to support corporate-friendly measures while exploiting social problems as a justification for political opportunism.
On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the broad mass of the population has precious little to be thankful for. The crushing weight of inflated costs for all necessities—housing, food, healthcare, childcare, transport—continues to weigh on working class families. But there is an entirely different reality in the environs of the rich and the super-rich.
London is the epicentre of a national emergency, accounting for over half of England’s homelessness figures.
While specific circumstances may differ from one event to another, the most pressing questions are the social roots of these repeated outburst of violence and how to stop them from happening.
The Democratic administrations in Albany and NYC are criminalizing migrants and the homeless.
In California alone, a state with a gross domestic product of $3.23 trillion, more than 181,000 people experience homelessness daily, as reported by the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
