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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles County will spend $843 million for its own department to combat homelessness in the 2026-2027 fiscal year after it decided to take away some of the responsibilities and funding from the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Lawmakers in Olympia could soon decide whether to set limits on when cities and counties can remove homeless encampments from public areas. H.B. 2489, known as the Shelters Not ...

California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population, at about 116,000 individuals. That is down from 124,000 in 2024, but up 7 ...

San Francisco is set to significantly change how it counts The City’s homeless population, leading some advocates for the homeless to say they worry the new method will make it more difficult to ...

The homeless have a new perk thanks to Mayor Zohran Mamdani: turndown service. City sanitation workers did everything this week but put mints on the greasy pillows atop makeshift beds in a booming ...

Homeless funds were allegedly pilfered by the director of Abundant Blessings to buy this Westwood mansion Credit: Department of Justice Alexander Soofer, the dapperly-dressed owner of the charity ...

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A bill that would significantly limit when cities and counties in Washington can clear homeless encampments received its first hearing Tuesday in Olympia, setting up a sharp debate over local control ...

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Teacher Herb Hickey holds a baby while she drinks from a bottle. Hickey has worked at the nonprofit Horizons for Homeless Children in Massachusetts for 13 years and frequently sees infants who are ...