New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani changed his mind on whether his administration would sweep homeless encampments -- but only after 20 homeless people died amid winter weather. In the past ...

In San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie has deployed cops, “street ambassadors” and outreach workers to push homeless people indoors. Fremont leaders made it illegal to camp anywhere in the city and ...

Over a period of 90 days in 2014, Patricia Williams lost everything. A longtime school teacher in Ohio, she had been on leave ...

Volunteers fanned out across Sacramento County on Monday night as part of a two-day effort to count the homeless population. The Point-in-Time Count is conducted every two years and the data it ...

Multnomah County’s Homeless Services Department has proposed closing 675 shelter beds as one tactic for addressing an $87 million hole in its budget for the next fiscal year. The news is a blow to ...

How homeless shelters coped during the coldest winter in recent Lehigh Valley memory ...

"We've seen homelessness continue to grow year after year. This is a crisis that does not have an immediate solution." ...

When needing help to eat gets labeled “stealing,” maybe the problem isn’t the pantry, it’s the judgment.