Homeless and Living in Paradise: For Those in Hawaii Who Can't Afford Rent, Scratching Out an Existence By the Ocean is Not Exactly a Day at the Beach That Tourists Have in Mind
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By Kirsten Scharnberg, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 12--WAIANAE, Hawaii -- The home sits on property with a million-dollar view, but its plastic roof is held down by bungee cords, its only source of lighting is a few crude lanterns, its floor is covered with sand.
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One of the tourism enclaves badly affected by the calamitous Asian earthquake was Phuket, an island located off the Southern part of Thailand.
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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing.
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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity
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The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters.
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ONTARIO, California  - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
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AMBALANGODA, Sri Lanka -- Asia's tsunami disaster dealt sharply different fates to those along the coasts, depending on how far they lived from the shore.
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Residents of this low-lying atoll are being forced to seek refuge on the sea more than a week after it rose up and destroyed their homes.
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Visitors flock to Hawaii's shores to snorkel, surf and sink their feet into the unblemished white sands of the state's beaches. But camouflaged among the coast's glassy granules lies a hidden peril &#151; seemingly indestructible cigarette butts cast away by smokers.
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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity.  A former war correspondent offers a word of caution
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Ibiza, which has an international reputation of being the ultimate party destination, doesn't seem like the place to go when you're trying to focus on work.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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SALINAS, Calif. -- A new study that shows most low-income earners can&#39;t afford to rent an apartment. Those who live in Santa Cruz County may soon be squeezed out of the rental market.
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With the holidays arriving, many of us will give a little more thought to the Puget Sound region&#39;s homeless populations. Although lasting solutions won&#39;t happen overnight, there are answers to the problems
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By Terry Wade SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The gap between rich and poorin Brazil is huge but when it comes to housing, they often liveside-by-side.
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With the price of gasoline and home heating oil no longer comfortably affordable, the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire have also become burdens for many people.