Entrepreneurship is starting a company. Intrapreneurship is transforming a business from within as an employee. Elizabeth Funk is familiar with both paths. As an early employee at Yahoo! and Microsoft, Funk helped pioneer services like Yahoo! Shopping and Microsoft Word. After thinking online shopping would be a cool feature, she pitched and wrote the first … Read more
Paul Atherton, 56, was homeless and unwell when he inherited £23,249 following his mother’s death. The sum was significant, as he had lost his home in 2009 due to financial struggles and spent years living in friends’ cars, on sofas, and even at Gatwick Airport. At 20 years old, Atherton was diagnosed with chronic fatigue … Read more
Presley Wilson’s priorities shifted from college to finding a new home after she got booted from her studio apartment in the middle of her first semester at Cal State Long Beach. Homelessness loomed for the transfer student when her financial aid package arrived too late to keep her from falling behind on her rent. Then, … Read more
A building well-known to fans of classic rock was destroyed Thursday, when a massive fire tore through the downtown Los Angeles building made famous by The Doors album Morrison Hotel. The four-story structure at South Hope Street had been vacant for 15 years, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a written statement, but had … Read more
The city of Denver and partners including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have now identified every homeless veteran in the Mile High City and secured housing or a private shelter space for them, officials said Thursday. A handful of those people, however, have not accepted the offer to come inside. Speaking at the historic … Read more
Edinburgh, one the most visited cities in Europe, is offering tourists the chance to see it from a different angle – through the eyes of tour guides who have slept on its streets. “When you’re homeless, people don’t look at you. They look through you,” the founder of the Invisible Cities initiative, Zakia Moulaoui Guery, … Read more
The defeat of Denver’s ambitious affordable housing sales tax by voters has generated plenty of reflection in the week since Mayor Mike Johnston and other supporters’ hopes for a narrow passage flickered out. Political activists, observers and even supporters say the proposal suffered from the lack of a clear spending plan that could be explained … Read more
BERKELEY — After spreading their footprint in Berkeley, the groups behind multiple protest encampments in the city are encouraging others across California and the nation to use the same form of civil disobedience to bring to light what activists have described as aggressive encampment policies implemented at the local and state level. Demonstrators with the … Read more
UKRAINIANS who fled for their lives from Vladimir Putin’s cruel war are now facing a homelessness crisis across Scotland, campaigners warned. Tens of thousands of refugees made their way here after the Russian despot invaded their homeland in February 2022. 9 Ukrainian refugees who fled the war and came to Scotland are facing a homelessness … Read more
The Denver city budget will grow only slightly in 2025, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said Thursday as he unveiled a plan with the slowest projected growth rate in more than a decade, outside the pandemic. But next year’s relatively conservative spending plan — totaling $1.76 billion in the general fund — continues to prioritize Johnston’s … Read more
