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Portland's Long-Running Experiment With Homeless Autonomous Zones

Youth Services Spotlight for Homelessness Action Week

This Homelessness Action Week (October 11-17), Family Services of Greater Vancouver (FSGV) is shining a light on Directions Youth Services, its 24/7/365 resource for young people w...

Homelessness often a ‘domino effect of compounding circumstances’

New DePaul research highlights five common pathways into homelessness

Homelessness overtakes addiction as main issue for Ana Liffey service users

‘The sense that we are all only one pay cheque away from the risk of homelessness really resonates,’ charity’s chief executive says

'A wake-up call': Nearly twice as many B.C. women facing homelessness, new data show

Many people in B.C. are now one paycheque away from needing a housing subsidy, says one service provider.

'Get out of that situation,' families facing homelessness plead for community's help

BATON ROUGE - Evicted families in the capital area say their story shows just how easy it is to become homeless, and how difficult it is to rebuild a life. This comes as federal da...

The End of Flophouses and the Rise of Homelessness

During the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, a Union commander mistakenly pulled a division out of its defensive line only minutes before Confederates assaulted that very spot. Southe...

We Know How To Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver

Homelessness, all appearances to the contrary, is a long-solved problem. We know both the causes and the cure. You wouldn't think that's the case from visiting many U.S. cities. St...

Vancouver homeless shelter urges Gluesenkamp Perez to protect federal housing funding

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez toured a homeless shelter Thursday inside St. Paul Lutheran Church and saw firsthand the rooms where men are rebuilding their lives. She also hear...

Green Bay’s ‘hidden homeless’ maintain hope while living in their vehicles

Housing out of reach for very poor amid empty low-income housing

PORTLAND — Mathew Davis, who lives in a homeless shelter in Austin, Texas, would love an apartment of his own. But with the little money he makes donating blood plasma, even a $450...

Bad Affordable Housing Policy Contributes to the High Rate of Homelessness for Black Men

Housing policy gaps leave many low-income households without assistance, contributing to disproportionately high homelessness rates among Black Americans. The post Bad Affordable H...

Children as young as 12 turned away from Perth crisis accommodation

The Ending Child and Youth Homelessness Coalition – a collection of not-for-profits – revealed over 2600 people were turned away across six months this year. Here’s what they want...

Honolulu’s Homeless Crisis May Be at a Tipping Point

An ambitious interagency push aims to dramatically expand housing and homeless services and help unsheltered people move off the streets.

A simple (golden) rule to counter homelessness

Neighborly connection and care provide the vital glue to sheltering those in need.

Young Adults Are Building Safe Spaces for Unhoused Peers

In his first year at the University of California, Davis, Liam commuted three hours a day from his family’s home in the Bay Area to campus and back again. The round-trip train tick...

Vermont’s new homelessness policy abandons people in crisis

Emergencies don't stop happening just because the state stops answering the phone. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont’s new homelessness policy abandons people in crisis.

'It's worse than ever' - new figures reveal struggle to support Newport's homeless

A Newport homelessness worker has revealed her own experience of homelessness as research exposes the pressures facing those who support vulnerable people.

Cork woman tells of hardship on the street as homelessness rises 14pc — ‘only for Simon I’d be dead’

Cork Simon Community set alarming new figures in context of a worrying reality

Sheltering Atlanta: Nicholas House Fills A Need For Homeless Community

"At the foundation of Nicholas House is a simple belief: Every family deserves a safe, stable home," Jannan Thomas told Patch.

More Than a Building

People need houses, but houses need people too.  A quick search suggests that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of three-quarters of a million people in the United States wh...

A Place to Sleep for Denver’s Homeless College Students

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College, Nikya Harrell had...

How ‘housing first’ is helping people leave rough sleeping behind

A housing model that gives people a permanent home before asking them to tackle their other problems has achieved striking results The post How ‘housing first’ is helping people le...

Copper theft, flooding and empty beds plague L.A. homeless housing, report finds

A new report on L.A.'s homeless services system finds fractured and inefficient data systems, and adds detail on other problems such as water damage, elevator outages and copper th...