A housing policy expert explains how the American legal system penalizes those who help people experiencing homelessness.

"Due to prior evictions and credit history, many people are turned away from housing," Sutton says. The hotel, which the city ...

The historic increase of homelessness reported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2024 was largely ...

The estimated number of people experiencing homelessness in America surged to about 771,000 ... experiencing homelessness per 1,000 residents), New York (8.0), Oregon (5.4) and Vermont (5.3).

A small-scale homeless outreach program that Mayor Adams’ administration launched in late 2022 has proven effective. But the ...

We know nobody chooses to be homeless, and we know that nobody in America deserves to live without ... by almost 36,000 individuals, up 23.6%. New York grew by almost 66,000 (71.5%), and Illinois ...

A US Marine veteran who was acquitted in the chokehold death of a homeless man on the New York subway a high-profile case highlighting the divisive issue of race in America has been hired by a major ...

Some 20 years after Sarasota was named "the meanest city in America" for criminalizing homelessness, the city has changed for ...

The Long Island survey is part of a national count that gives a picture of homelessness in America during one day.

Painful tragedies such as these are the consequence of decades of laws and policies that have conditioned society to treat homeless people as invisible. But ignoring America’s homelessness ...