A formerly homeless New Yorker explains what Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to end sweeps could mean for solutions to ...

The U.S. has a massive and growing problem with homelessness. More than 770,000 people are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2024, the highest number ever recorded. No end is in sight ...

For the city and county mayors, the problem is the ugly visual reminder on our streets that many citizens cannot afford a place to live. Mayor Biskupski, Mayor McAdams and Governor Herbert are between ...

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Homelessness has risen sharply since 2023, new data show. The research is clear: rental assistance promotes housing stability and is key to solving homelessness. Reducing, and ultimately solving, ...

During a sweeping policy discussion on how to tackle homelessness, the Peoria City Council moved forward Tuesday night on exploring a tiny home village in the city and providing another $64,000 to ...

Much as he did during his first term, President Donald Trump has been insisting lately that he — and perhaps he alone — knows how to fix the homelessness crisis that has long bedeviled American cities ...

Fourteen years ago, Vikki Vickers was diagnosed with schizophrenia and eventually became homeless. She lived for years outside the Santa Monica Library until an outreach worker connected her with ...

I’ve been helping people live in affordable homes for 25 years. It pains me to say my job has never been so difficult. Local organizations like mine are doing their best to meet rising demand, yet the ...

For a long time, no one has known exactly how many people in Multnomah County are homeless. There have been biannual estimates and a rough list of individual people, but not a quality-checked, ...

Homelessness touches every community and every population in Los Angeles County: no one is immune. Black people, however, are disproportionately affected, representing 40% of the Country’s population ...

Homelessness, like most crises, is a complex problem that requires a multifaceted approach to spur a viable solution for New York City’s roughly 62,000 homeless New Yorkers – a census that includes ...