“Homelessness & Affordability Crisis”

As homelessness overwhelms downtown Phoenix, a small business wonders how long it can hang on.

He had been coming into work at the same sandwich shop at the same exact time every weekday morning for the last four decades, but now Joe Faillace, 69, pulled up to Old Station Subs with no idea what to expect. He parked on a street lined with three dozen tents, grabbed his Mace and unlocked the door to his restaurant. The peace sign was still hanging above the entryway. Fake flowers remained undisturbed on every table. He picked up the phone and dialed his wife and business partner, Debbie Faillace, 60.

“All clear,” he said. “Everything looks good.”

It’s largely a drug and mental health issue, being homeless is a symptom.

… The city’s data shows that drug toxicity is by far the leading cause of death for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, resulting in nearly half – or 47 per cent – of reported deaths in the population.

PORTLAND, Ore. – On a sidewalk littered with tarps, bicycles and discarded food containers, one tent sat farther away from the rest. It was clean, with the rain fly removed, showcasing the vacant interior.

“This is an empty tent erected by activists to encourage people to live in tents,” Kevin Dahlgren said.

It’s a business worth billions but the problem is never solved.

Homeless people are big business in cities like New York, San Francisco, and L.A.

Billions of dollars flow to nonprofits, bureaucrats, and contractors whose job it is to “solve” the homeless crisis.

The self-proclaimed “governor” of Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row has lashed out after her tent mansion — complete with a hot tub and kitchen — was torn down by city officials.

Stephanie Arnold Williams’ encampment, known as the White House, was among a handful of tents demolished with a bulldozer earlier this month by the city’s sanitation department as part of a “routine cleanup,” LAMag reported.

Her pop-up home, which was located at 5th and San Pedro streets, had been tricked-out with windows and linoleum floors, two queen-size beds, portable toilets, an inflatable hot tub and gas stove.

The Office of the Federal Housing Advocate called the dismantlement of homeless encampments during winter a “serious violation of human rights.”

Jason Rondeau was asleep Wednesday when his girlfriend burst into their tent to wake him up.

“You gotta get up, the city’s here, they’re gonna throw away our shit,” he said she told him.

Gonna be a wild summer in TO.

The federal housing advocate is launching a review of homeless encampments in Canada, calling the situation a human rights crisis fuelled in part by the failure of all levels of government to provide adequate housing.

Marie-Josée Houle says the review will collect testimony from people living in encampments along with experts in housing and human rights.

The TTC has become a homeless encampment, just like Toronto’s parks during warmer months.

But this is a tent city without the tents. Vagrants don’t need tents when they have warm hallways, platforms, bathrooms, buses, trains and streetcars to camp out in.

This won’t get better, it will only get worse.

The left want visible homelessness and lots of it.

They use it to demand more and more tax payer money not to fix the problem but to fund endlessness homelessness.

And it works in liberal-left run cities all over North America.

The numbers are horrifying, but drug overdose death statistics can’t fully convey the crisis ravaging America, so DailyMail.com has documented the suffering in some of the worst-affected communities.

There were 107,622 deaths from drug overdoses in the US in 2021, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the year prior, and shocking national trends show few signs of the crisis abating.

Just two milligrams of fentanyl – the amount that fits on the top of a pencil tip – is deadly. Despite successful nationwide stings to bust dealers, authorities admit there’s no end in sight for the epidemic.

No doubt everyday journalism has lost much of its power to shock the conscience in a world in which everyone’s a victim one way or another. But I unexpectedly found my hackles still functioning when I read in Nova Scotia’s ancient Chronicle Herald about the predicament of Robert Antle, a resident of Upper Stewiacke.

This solution works for those who can make it work.

Unfortunately most of the homeless crisis is in fact a mental illness and drug abuse crisis.

An Ontario court’s decision that blocks the eviction of a Kitchener encampment could affect municipalities across Canada that are contending with tent cities of their own, according to legal experts.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision released Friday says the Region of Waterloo isn’t allowed to evict people living in tents on one if its vacant lots, at 100 Victoria St., because its shelter system didn’t have enough beds for people experiencing homelessness.

In his 51-page decision, Justice M.J. Valente said clearing encampments without sufficient shelter spaces would infringe on their constitutional rights.

Oh Great. Now the whole country can be just like San Francisco.

A San Francisco tech executive has branded the downtown area ‘dystopian’ after she walked past ‘hundreds’ of homeless people.

Michelle Tandler, 37, shared a picture from her Saturday night trip to a bar in the wilting Democrat-run city.

She posted the image of a distressing scene that featured a group of homeless men surrounding by trash and graffiti.