New York City will spend $650 million over the next five years to combat homelessness and mental illness, while increasing the number of police officers in the subway system.

A Code Blue emergency declaration adds another layer of urgency to the work being done by homeless outreach groups throughout the tri-state area. On Thursday night, ...

Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday laid out an ambitious agenda for 2025 while fighting for his political life. His State of the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — When Jason Whitehead first saw the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee mascot, Luce, it “was a bit of a surprise,” he said.

The announcement comes after a series of horrifying attacks, including a woman torched and killed on the subway in Coney Island and three others stabbed to death at random in Manhattan.

Heavyweight libertarian economist Milton Friedman's famous observation was that you can't have open immigration and a welfare ...

Housing affordability has become a big problem in recent years, driven in part by immense amounts of new money creation. As money loses its value, those who ...

IN the heart of São Paulo, an area as big as London’s Soho stands as a harrowing symbol of Brazil’s war on drugs for more than 30 years. In Cracolândia, literally “Crackland” in Portuguese, ...

It is past time to rethink solutions to Colorado’s always worsening homeless and affordable housing crises. Organized ...

In the national capital, the homeless population is almost 3,000 people, up significantly ...