He doesn’t want to be homeless, but he sees no way out. In the year he’s been homeless, he’s found that without a steady source of income, he has nowhere to turn. He wants to work, he said.

And 7% of all homeless adults, single or in families, are over 65. And 41% of those older, single Californians had never been homeless — not one day in their lives — before the age of 50.

When Trump was first inaugurated in January 2017, there were about 550,000 homeless people nationwide, according to an annual count from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The approach of tracking homeless people by name is backed by Community Solutions, a New York nonprofit that has persuaded 83 communities across the country to use its software and to accept its ...

Homeless youth and children are not receiving the resources needed to combat the barriers of not having a stable home. The biggest obstacle is having one federal definition of homelessness.

A homeless person sits outside a tent during the first winter living on the streets on Dec. 8, 2020 in Bloomington, Ind. Homlessness is poised to surge in the coming weeks and months as Americans ...

What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and why does it matter for doubled-up students? The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is a federal law that requires every public school to ...

I was homeless for the better part of 20 years and so I’ve lived a lot of places. Some of them are what you might think of as typical, like parks, beaches, overpasses, or shelters, but others ...

The city of Los Angeles, where more than 46,000 are estimated to be homeless, has about five times the number of homeless people per capita as Detroit, according to local estimates and census data.

A homeless encampment off a Hollywood freeway ramp. Infectious diseases, some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages, are resurging in California and around the country, and are hitting ...

The homeless went from hoping to be fed to waiting to be fed. They needed help with clothing, transportation, making phone calls, cleaning up camp, etc. They stopped trying.