It’s been one week since Spokane’s implementation of a stricter homelessness law – and the method is yielding more police citations and connections to resources, Mayor Lisa Brown said in a Monday ...

Jaquedah Williams puts a blanket over her head, as she sorts through belongings to throw away or move as she faces an eviction order from the city to leave the encampment where she and several other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal talks about homelessness in the city, the probability of raising taxes, hate crimes ...

On a recent early fall morning, hope was in short supply. My first patient was a regular. Mr. D was a man in his fifties with diabetes. He had been living on Denver’s streets for most of the past five ...

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Last year, the United States faced some of the highest homelessness levels ever recorded, with 771,480 people counted on a single January night. Major urban areas carried over half of the country’s ...

Troy Brynelson / OPB Homelessness is still on the rise in Washington, but data collected by the state Department of Commerce shows that the growth rate across much of the state slowed last year. This ...

If, misguidedly, you believe homeless people are a lost cause, maybe spend some time with Paul Richards to appreciate how wrong you are, writes Phil Hill. Paul became chief executive of Taunton-based ...