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Trump Backed Celebrity Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt Says “The homeless want to have animals to abuse,” and His Role Model is JESUS CHRIST

VIDEO – NOT SATIRE – May 21, 2026 - Spencer Pratt has big plans for LA and he insists that he’s not running to make money or boost his personal brand. Pratt said he would much rather be out promoting his book and his... Read More...

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Boulder Reopens Treatment Center for Homeless People

CITY OF ANGELS – April 28. 2026 - The City of Boulder has selected Hazelbrook to operate its recovery home for homeless people with substance use disorders. The city first opened the 11-bed residential... Read More...

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Joshua Project Delivers Help Amid Homeless Overdose Crisis

VIDEO – FEEDING THE POOR – Feb. 12, 2026 - Members of The Joshua Project, a faith-based outreach organization, set up tables offering clothes, warm drinks and information about recovery resources. Organizers said wha... Read More...

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RFK Jr Unveils $100M Effort to Tackle Addiction, Homelessness and Mental Illness

GOOD LUCK – Feb. 3, 2026 - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a $100 million federal investment Monday aimed at reducing homelessness, combating opioid addiction and improving public ... Read More...

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Homeless Veteran Gains Stability and Starts Non-profit to Help Veterans

Call Center for Homeless Veterans 877-424-3838 – Jan. 14, 2026 - Veteran Esther Frias grew up in Los Angeles after her parents immigrated from Mexico. She remembers watching news coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riot... Read More...

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Las Vegas Program Celebrates 80 Graduates Overcoming Homelessness and Addiction

VIDEO – ALL HEROES – Jan. 17, 2026 - (Brent Nowak, a representative from Shine A Light) Eighty individuals celebrated a significant milestone in Las Vegas as they graduated from the Shine A Light organization’s 18-mo... Read More...

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Homeless and Addicted Veteran Credits MAC-V for Turning His Life Around

VIDEO – HAVE A HEART – Dec. 31, 2025 - The Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans doesn’t quit trying to help service members - even when a veteran gives up on themselves. Army veteran John Vincent Doran had sever... Read More...

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Federal Policy Ignores the Most Perilous Weeks of Addiction Treatment

AUDIO – FOOD AND HOUSING – Dec. 24, 2025 - Many people who participate in homelessness or crisis services today carry a mix of untreated addiction, chronic health conditions and long periods of instability. Short tre... Read More...

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Nickelodeon Star’s Dad On His Son’s Brutal Battle With Addiction

VIDEO – GRUESOME – Dec. 25, 2025 - Tylor Chase has been struggling with addiction since he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in 2015, Former Nickelodeon child star Tylor Chase, who was found dishe... Read More...

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How a Homeless Man Escaped the Grip of Fentanyl

ONE HOT MEAL AT A TIME – Dec. 3, 2025 - WHEN EVAN CARVER shuffled into the chapel of Salvation Army’s rehab center looking frail and steadying himself with a walker, he wasn’t sure he could quit fentanyl for good. Bu... Read More...

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From Homelessness To Clean & Sober Living

NICE STORY – Nov. 12, 2025 - Selina Baylis, 44, said she is now the woman she was always meant to be. Describing herself as having been an alcoholic since her teens, Selina is now living in her own flat and plans to ... Read More...

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Nonprofits Profit On Homeless While the Crisis Deepens

AUDIO – NOT SO POOR ANYMORE – Oct. 14, 2025 - In Los Angeles, much of the work is carried out not just by government agencies, but largely by a vast network of nonprofits funded with public money. Over the past de... Read More...

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How Albuquerque Woman Turned Her Life Around

VIDEO – BETTER DAYS NOW – Sept. 13, 2025 - Drug addiction is one of the biggest challenges faced by many individuals living on the streets. However, one woman is sharing her story of overcoming her struggles an... Read More...

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Los Angeles Organizations Are Adapting to Save Lives

VIDEO – ANGELS IN THE FLESH – Sept. 1, 2025 - At the newly opened Skid Row Care Campus, harm reduction is at the forefront of helping those experiencing homelessness and struggling with addiction. Most of the people ... Read More...

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Trump Executive’s Order to House The Homeless

OR ELSE? – July 24, 2025 Trump instructed federal agencies to determine methods to forcibly put homeless people dealing with mental illness or drug addiction into treatment centers for longer periods, while gut... Read More...

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‘I’m just trying to do good’

AND HE’S SUCCEEDING – July 22, 2025 - J.R. Montgomery strives to help those struggling with homelessness and substance use disorder. Studies show that peer support improves outcomes for those being helped, as well as... Read More...

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45 People Who Had To Run Away From Home And Why

SAD BUT TRUE – July 25, 2025 - By definition, home is a haven where we generally feel safe. It’s a place of warmth and solace. That’s not the case for many people. For them, home is an awful setting where most of ... Read More...

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Documentary on Homelessness Crisis Debuts at REEL Recovery Film Festival

MOVIES MATTER – June 6, 2025 - “InhuMAINE,” created by Rogan O’Donnell, was filmed almost entirely in Bangor and attempts to capture why the region has struggled with growing homelessness in the wake of the pandemic.... Read More...

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Daughter Finds Mother Dead: Was it an Overdose?

HEARTBREAKING – May 27, 2025 - The daughters of a U.S. Army veteran whose body was found in a homeless encampment are raising concerns about the LA Police Department’s handling of their mother’s case. Lucrecia Macias... Read More...

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Nikki Hayes: From Radio to Arrest and Living on the Street

DOING THE RIGHT THING – May 25, 2025 - Ms. Hayes went onto lose her job, her home, and contact with most of her friends and family before her sister convinced her to seek help. Now sober for eighteen months and one w... Read More...

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Brother’s Struggles Inspire Woman to Help Addicted Homeless

GOD BLESS HER – May 27, 2025 - Equipped with clothing, food and medical supplies, Lisa Lipyanic of Wind Gap tries to help people who live on the streets like her brother had been doing for many years. Randy Lipyanic ... Read More...

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Law Student Graduates Top of Class After Being Homeless

YES YOUR HONOR – May 5, 2025 - Lisa Mertz began using alcohol and marijuana in the eighth grade. By the time the suburban Cincinnati woman started the journey to sobriety in 2015, she’d progressed to painkillers and ... Read More...

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Helping the Homeless with Substance Abuse

WITH GOD ON THEIR SIDE – April 24, 2025 - The place I call Deliverance Alley is a vacant lot of grass and dirt in a neglected south Dallas neighborhood. Drive by and you won’t see much. A sign on a deli across ... Read More...

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Café Offers Job Training To Homeless

VIDEO – FEEL GOOD – March 26, 2025 - We’d like to introduce you to Change Please Coffee, a local coffee shop that is doing good in the community by helping people get back on their feet. They are a social enterprise ... Read More...

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Meth Rampant For California’s Homeless: Treatment Elusive

SOCIETY’S CHILD – March 13, 2025 - The mean age of the homeless people who participated in the survey was 46. Thirty-seven percent reported regular drug use in the prior six months. A quarter of the homeless pe... Read More...

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Homeless Say Cost of Addiction Forcing Them Into Modern Slavery

IT’S ROUGH OUT THERE – Feb. 28, 2025 - Patrick is 32 years old and has been homeless on and off in Edinburgh since growing up in care. He speaks with a rasping quality due to the ravages of sleeping outdoors in... Read More...

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Tiny Homes Designed to Promote Sobriety for Homeless Residents

BUILD MORE! – Feb. 13, 2025 - Named Recovery Gateway, it consists of 42 single-occupancy homes and four double-occupancy homes for couples, for a total of 46 available units for 50 people. Residents will be wel... Read More...

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Woman Offers Lifeline To Those on Streets, Like She Once Needed

VIDEO – BEEN THERE, DONE THAT – Jan. 10, 2025 - CaraMia Bacchiochi founded Hope On A Mission after overcoming her own struggles with homelessness and addiction. A passion project for her, Hope On A Mission has been ... Read More...

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Make Hard-Drug Possession a Felony to Convince Homeless Addicts to Get Clean – by Marcia Kelbon

THEN WHAT? – Dec. 25, 2024 - As many of us prepare to enjoy the holidays in our snug homes, let’s pause to remember those without such amenities. And to review the approaches we have been taking to reduce the p... Read More...

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Homeless Man Gets 5 Years in Prison for $30 Drug Delivery

INJUSTICE ANYONE? – Dec. 12, 2024 - For $30, Kaream Moore pedaled his bicycle at the request of a man he had not previously met to deliver a baggie containing 40 grams of fentanyl. The price for the homeless man, who... Read More...

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