Every night longtime Washington, DC, resident Jeff Padgett packs up his two chihuahuas, his sketch pad and other belongings ...

Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer ...

Washington, D.C., officials said at least 764 people are living unsheltered outdoors across the city, according to new ...

The White House says people living on the street in Washington, D.C., can avoid jail by going to a shelter. Homeless ...

Homelessness is on the rise in the United States, and in some places, it is becoming more common for the police to arrest someone for sleeping or living in a public space. In June 2024, the ...

2023 marked the highest number of homeless people in the US, experiencing an 11% rise in individuals and a 16% rise in families with children. READ NEXT ... affects around 43 out of every 10,000 ...

According to Charlie Lanter, commissioner of housing advocacy, officials are seeing more families with children experiencing homelessness.

In Allentown city officials have given the people living in a homelessness encampment along the Jordan Creek until Aug. 25 to vacate, without a clear alternative plan in place. The order came after a ...

Aug. 17—Shielded from the sun beneath a canopy tent, Kim Damon slouched in a folding chair on Vermont SE. Her hairdresser, whom she had met for the first time moments earlier, had set up the ...

One month after President Donald Trump’s administration effectively took over Washington, DC’s police department, surging ...

The poll comes as homelessness is on the rise and as officials across the country, including President Trump in the nation’s ...

More than one year after the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, a geographer who researches homelessness finds that the ruling is leading to more places criminalizing homelessness.