In January 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Point-in-Time count recorded roughly 745,650 people on a single night, a 3% decline from 2024's record and the first ...

Homelessness in Los Angeles is showing signs of a shifting and increasingly unstable population, even in neighborhoods long associated with the crisis, according to new research and survey results ...

Homelessness in America hit a grim milestone in recent years, and the numbers keep telling an uneven story depending on where you look. Some states carry an outsized share of the national total simply ...

Donald Trump’s policy on the homeless is not “housing first” (to state the obvious). It is “incarceration first,” for despite its minimally commendable emphasis on treatment for the insane unhoused, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Brian Goldstone will speak at the Pisgah Legal Services Justice Forum on Oct. 22. Goldstone ...

Ann Arbor is approaching homelessness with a bill of rights. Council member Ayesa Ghazi Edwin explains what protections this could offer to those who are unhoused. And Pastor Claude May talks about ...

Recent population estimates show that Charlotte, North Carolina, is the fastest-growing large city in the United States. The city added more than 20,000 residents between 2024 and 2025 and is rapidly ...

The local efforts have transformed homelessness in America by making it easier for more homeless people to access safer places to stay. Various towns provide housing services to individuals along with ...

Henny Youngman began his famous comedy routine, “Take my wife—please.” I’m beginning this series of columns, “Take Gil Rife Jr.—please.” I spent hours with Gil at Eden Village, a Missouri homeless ...

Housing is important, but making it the finish line set the bar devastatingly low for both the system and the people it serves. We now routinely confuse housing placement with transformation and ...

This is presumably the richest country in the world! If this is true, how is it possible that 72.5 million Americans received government assistance each month of 2025 to sustain daily life? This ...