• Older Americans at risk as government restarts Social Security garnishment on student loan debt

    Older Americans at risk as government restarts Social Security garnishment on student loan debt

    May 15, 2025 06:56 PM EDT

    ... half. People take drastic measures like pulling all their savings out or dissolving their 401ks,” he says. “We know folks that have been driven into homelessness.” Collections on defaulted loans may have restarted no matter who was president, though the Biden administration had sought to limit the amount of income ...

  • Newsom urges California cities and counties to ban homeless encampments

    Newsom urges California cities and counties to ban homeless encampments

    May 12, 2025 06:58 PM EDT

    ... Homelessness. In 2024, California voters approved a measure that imposes strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the homelessness crisis. It was a signature proposal for Newsom, who campaigned for the measure’s passage. Under the measure, counties are required to spend about ...

  • How this 'vessel of freedom' in Oklahoma honors Vietnamese refugees who built new lives in America

    How this 'vessel of freedom' in Oklahoma honors Vietnamese refugees who built new lives in America

    Apr 30, 2025 07:02 PM EDT

    After five days adrift, a Panamanian cargo ship traveling to Singapore appeared. The wife of the captain spotted a young baby on the fishing vessel, Nguyen’s infant nephew, and begged her husband to turn around. Nguyen’s family were saved from the seas, but faced several years of homelessness ...

  • Most AAPI adults don't support cutting federal agencies, new poll shows

    Most AAPI adults don't support cutting federal agencies, new poll shows

    Mar 12, 2025 05:31 PM EDT

    ... nation's education system. Around 6 in 10 say the same about improving the nation's health, protecting the environment and addressing the problem of homelessness. There is one area where more AAPI adults see spending as excessive: Like Hong, about half of AAPI adults say “too much” is being ...

  • 'We’re going to get' Greenland, Trump said in his address. Prime minister says island isn't for sale

    'We’re going to get' Greenland, Trump said in his address. Prime minister says island isn't for sale

    Mar 05, 2025 06:06 PM EDT

    “We feel like it’s a bad idea, and we just more want to be like our little island that’s more independent than anything else,” Aardestrup said. “Greenland is very independent,” she added. Aardestrup is also worried about importing the school shootings, angry politics and homelessness that dominate ...

  • What experts are forecasting for renters and homebuyers this year

    What experts are forecasting for renters and homebuyers this year

    Feb 20, 2025 09:19 PM EDT

    ... Urban Development estimates that up to 50 percent of its staff could be fired, fueling concerns that funding for housing assistance, including programs to alleviate homelessness, will not be distributed.The impacts of climate change and natural disasters can also affect rents. Wang expects rental prices to drop or hold ...

  • News Wrap: Hamas frees 8 hostages, Israel releases 100 prisoners in 3rd round of exchanges

    News Wrap: Hamas frees 8 hostages, Israel releases 100 prisoners in 3rd round of exchanges

    Jan 30, 2025 11:30 PM EDT

    ... of their greatest songs. Faithfull also acted on the stage and on screens big and small. Her life was marked by the highs of fame and the lows of drug addiction, even homelessness. That journey was the focus of her memoir released in 1994. Marianne Faithfull was 78 years old.

  • As wildfires still burn, focus turns to rebuilding Los Angeles' leveled neighborhoods

    As wildfires still burn, focus turns to rebuilding Los Angeles' leveled neighborhoods

    Jan 16, 2025 07:48 PM EDT

    ... downtown buildings with high vacancy rates. Meanwhile, planning is underway to host the 2028 Olympics, and the region contends with perhaps the nation’s worst homelessness crisis, which had been Mayor Karen Bass’ priority before the fires broke out last week. The government has not yet released damage estimates, but ...

  • Giuliani fighting to keep his Yankees World Series rings after $148 million defamation verdict

    Giuliani fighting to keep his Yankees World Series rings after $148 million defamation verdict

    Jan 02, 2025 07:21 PM EDT

    Giuliani’s eight hours of deposition testimony offered a vivid portrait of a still-proud, combative and downtrodden man who has lost almost everything and remains convinced that it has been unjustly taken. Recalling his days as a two-term Republican mayor, he boasted that he “cured” homelessness in the ...

  • AI, housing and other top issues for state lawmakers in 2025

    AI, housing and other top issues for state lawmakers in 2025

    Jan 02, 2025 02:37 PM EDT

    ... number of people experiencing homelessness in one night. The count, done in January 2024, showed an 18 percent rise in the number of people experiencing homelessness from 2023. Experts agree the country’s lack of affordable housing is at least partly to blame for the burgeoning homelessness crisis. Some state ...