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Viral Tetris Challenge extends beyond Europe's emergency workers

The Tetris challenge, which overtook the social media pages of emergency workers across Europe last month, has now spread among other organisations, with community centres and even the clergy among those taking part.

USA

Watch: Homeless woman sings Puccini aria on LA subway platform

The video was shared by the Los Angeles Police Department last week.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Shipping containers are the tip of the iceberg. Homelessness in the UK is at epidemic levels ǀ View

Homelessness makes us uncomfortable - it challenges our assumptions about global inequality, as well as the viability of our own welfare states and governance, when we see large numbers of our fellow citizens living in conditions akin to refugee camps abroad.

France

France must do more for its homeless, says UN housing expert

Laws meant to protect the most vulnerable people in France have failed, says the UN's special rapporteur on housing.

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Homelessness in Europe - a hidden figure

The official number of homeless people in Europe is not known, their lives a hidden figure. The invisibility of this crisis in the EU flags up policy failures after years of austerity, stagnating wages and increase in house prices. We take a look behind the numbers.

World News

Charity gives Irish flag sleeping bags to homeless veterans

Irish military veterans are taking to the streets in tricolour sleeping bags to highlight homelessness.

Ireland

Watch: Bono and The Edge busk to raise money for homeless in Dublin

Musicians Bono and The Edge busked in Dublin on Christmas Eve, asking people to donate to a homeless charity.

Hungary

'Total evil': Campaigners slam Hungary's homeless ban

While Finland has won accolades for ending homelessness, Hungary has sparked concern by sweeping it under the carpet.

United Kingdom

Scottish locals are leaving jackets on lamp posts for homeless people

A group has started a spontaneous project to collect jackets for homeless people.

Russia

Russia's homeless use buses to escape winter chill

Local businesses have been donating old buses to Russia's homeless population as a way to escape winter temperatures

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Celebrities serve Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in LA

Kevin Hart, Pharrell Williams and Minnie Driver were among the celebrities who turned out Wednesday to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless in downtown Los Angeles.

Hungary

Homeless people face prison in Hungary after tough new law is passed

At least three homeless people were arrested last week in Hungary after a law criminalising rough sleeping came into effect.

France

Man removed 'anti-homeless' devices from benches and ended in court

Hippolyte says the authorities, not him, should have been in the dock.

France

Paris to open town hall doors to homeless people this winter

The measure is part of a plan to create some 3,000 emergency night shelter places.

World News

Portuguese tourism backlash

Landlords in Lisbon are forcing local residents to move out of their homes so they can rent them to tourists for more money

Ireland

Dublin's homeless 'could be forced out of city' for pope's visit

Homeless people in Dublin could be removed from the Dublin region in order to make room for tourists who will pay more than accommodation services receive from government and charities.

USA

Watch: How plastic helps the homeless to survive

What’s it like to be a professional plastic collector?

Finland

Helping eradicate homelessness: our #Europeanhero from Finland

Juha Kaakinen is an architect and leading proponent of the "Housing First" approach in Finland. As CEO of the Y Foundation, he helps to provide permanent housing for the homeless, bringing dignity to people's lives, and drastically cutting the number of rough sleepers.

Germany

Berlin squatters occupy buildings to protest homelessness, gentrification | Euronews answers

Activist squatters in Berlin have taken over vacant buildings in the city to protest rising house prices, homelessness and gentrification.

World News

Homelessness on the rise in all EU countries — except Finland: report

“This past year has resolutely confirmed the existence of another Europe: a Europe not merely ignored but also misunderstood, not just despised but also forgotten — a Europe of the homeless," says the new report.