Brian Mason, the City of Houston emergency manager coordinator, said the mayor's plan focused most on areas where the homeless gathered the most, such as downtown near Allen's Landing. RELATED ...

And a city-sanctioned camp site meant to give people a place to go has become central to tensions between the city, neighbors, and a group trying to help the homeless. As a mother, Lindsey ...

When former Toronto city councillor and MPP Lorenzo Berardinetti found himself in a homeless shelter last year, it was a circumstance he never imagined he would face. "What am I doing here?" ...

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the top line numbers from its annual “point-in-time” homeless count, conducted on a single night last January.

King County also saw hundreds of migrant families arriving in recent years who became homeless, but its family homelessness numbers remained flat, according to the Point-In-Time count, a one-day ...

In New England, the data showed diverging trends, with two states, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, reporting steep increases, while two others, Maine and New Hampshire, had smaller homeless ...

A new Gavin and Stacey clip has given fans their first ever glimpse of Uncle Bryn and Jason on the long-discussed fishing trip. "I think it's blown a few people's minds," said Robert Wilfort, who ...

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She had a family and a career before she says she "threw it away" through addiction and trauma, becoming homeless along the way. She had spent about eight months living at the Geraldine E. King ...

EACH YEAR for a few frigid days in January volunteers fan out across cities, towns and rural areas to try to count every homeless person in America. The method is imperfect: cities do their ...

HUD’s annual point-in-time survey found that the number of homeless increased 18% this year and 36% since 2019. Local governments and nonprofits in January counted some 771,480 living in public ...

She had a family and a career before she says she "threw it away" through addiction and trauma, becoming homeless along the way. She had spent about eight months living at the Geraldine E.