This story is republished from National Coalition for the Homeless. Read the original article:https://nationalhomeless.org/rooming-houses-in-las-vegas Every night, in the United States, nearly 600,000 people live on the street. National Coalition for the Homeless considers this a severe humanitari...
Touted as a proposalto empower authoritiesto connect homeless Nevadans to needed services, the new law will ban sleeping on many city sidewalks if beds are available at Las Vegas shelters. The punishment could be as harsh as six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. By the time the...
Fortunes are won and lost in Las Vegas all the time. But the city itself has been on the losing end of the foreclosure crisis. The city's homeless population has grown from nearly 12,000 two years ago to nearly 14,000 today. Yet there are fewer than 1,000 beds in shelters, forcing ...
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Feeding homeless is a losing bet in Las Vegas
A homeless man in Las Vegas who had been living on the streets and had not seen his six children for nearly 25years has been reunited with his daughter thanks to modern technology and the kindness of strangers. Jimmy Francis was outside a Firehouse Subs shop earlier this month when he was...
Las Vegas stacks the deck against homeless populationKathleen Hennessey
A man who was seen scaling the Sphere venue in Las Vegas was arrested by police Wednesday morning.
Policy issues remain as Las Vegas killer of victim I found to plead guilty but mentally ill Posted onJune 10, 2021byWilliam P. Barrett Reply Why was Jarrid Johnson even on the street to murder homeless Ralph Franzello? Continue reading→ ...
6 (Xinhua) -- The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has made an appeal to the public to help them catch a shooter targeting homeless people in a series of attacks. Four shootings that happened in less than a week were committed by the same suspect, a LVMPD press release ...