Homelessness, especially among the mentally ill, has become a problem that is swallowing the city. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Jim McDonnell told The California Post that about ...

Sprawling homelessness is one of the most chronic frustrations in Los Angeles. Now we find out the LA City Council spent an eye-popping $418 million on homeless “services” in 2025 alone –– only to ...

Metro, the Portland area’s regional government, has raised $1.4 billion in tax revenue since 2020 specifically to provide homeless services in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. That’s a ...

San Bernardino has the highest rate of homelessness among cities in the Inland Empire, with 682 homeless people per 100,000 residents, more than triple the San Bernardino County average. Forty percent ...

At Monday’s funeral of Carvell Curry, a homeless man found frozen outside South Station on a brutally cold night, some mourners wondered if this could happen again. Yes, it can. When temperatures fall ...

King County’s homelessness authority is expecting to see another increase in the region’s homeless population this year, as volunteers complete the final surveys for the latest Point-in-Time Count, a ...

San Francisco swept homeless camps downtown when the Bay Area last hosted the Super Bowl in 2016. Before last year’s big game in New Orleans, authorities relocated homeless people away from the ...

Chaos and fury erupted Monday in New York City’s affluent Upper East Side as residents packed a public meeting in protest of a planned homeless shelter they said "reeks of a for-profit intent." The ...

Aviation Park in Lakewood used to be filled with parents and their children. Recently it has transformed into a refuge for many of the Colorado city's unhoused residents. "What is beautiful and what ...

I’ve eaten PB&Js for 35 years in an effort to have a retirement where I can do what I want. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...

Large snowstorms and consistent freezing temperatures have put Boston’s homeless population at risk, causing homeless support organizations across the city to step in and provide support. Boston’s ...