Many people respond to homelessness with dismissive attitudes, such as "Not my problem!", "Not in my backyard!", or "They chose to be homeless!" As the director of the Safe Harbor homeless shelter in ...

Homelessness has been in the news a lot lately. At the federal level, the Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson vs. Grants Pass and the recent executive order on homelessness both move us toward ...

Some argue the answer to homelessness is to lock people up and force them into treatment. But jail doesn’t end that cycle.

Rachelle Ellison spent 17 years sleeping on the streets of Washington, DC, cycling in and out of jails and hospitals. She finally moved into an apartment in 2008, thanks to a rental voucher with ...

Programs aimed at families and veterans offer a road map to address the problem in the coming decades.

As the homeless population continues to rise in the Seattle metro area, a lack of available housing and permissive drug use ...

Cities across the state are trying to develop strategies for dealing with a growing homelessness problem. Even small towns in the most rural parts of West Virginia have reported an uptick in ...

Survey results, released by the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, also show 64% of the homeless population lives ...

When a reporter asked Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt about his plans to tackle homelessness, Pratt had a brusque response: "They're not homeless. They're drug addicts." "They are choosing ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The MTA on Wednesday announced a task force that will have 30 days to come up with a plan to deal with the homeless problem in the New York City subway system. Officials say ...