When people hear my homeless stories, they often expect statistics, headlines or stereotypes. What they rarely expect is the truth of lived experience—the long nights wondering where to sleep, the ...

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 ...

It takes 20 minutes to find out if you have HIV. On a Monday in March, Dulce Delgado, a 37-year-old woman living in a tent on a hill, held out her hand. Prizma Mercado, a member of a roving medical ...

Homeless shelters that had the most success getting people into permanent housing last year all had one thing in common, according to a new report from Multnomah County: budgets to pay for helping ...

A heartbreaking 96% of pleas to help homeless New Yorkers never actually led to any assistance since the deadly cold snap hit the Big Apple — with city workers unable to even find the destitute ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani conceded Wednesday that the Big Apple does need homeless encampment sweeps — but vowed that his administration will have “better outcomes” than his predecessor. Hizzoner, facing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the first time in a decade, L.A. County homeless deaths declined, with a 10% drop in mortality rate driven by ...

Sacramento launches flexible housing pool to link homeless, at‑risk residents to rentals. Program pairs rental subsidies, housing navigation and landlord incentives. State CalAIM policy, $5.8M grant ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will place the Department of Homeless Services in charge of the sweeps, replacing the Police Department as leader of the interagency efforts. By Emma Goldberg and Jeffery C. Mays ...