The number of people experiencing homelessness in New York City has reached unprecedented levels since the Great Depression.

Project Coffee Cup, which provides resources and assistance for homeless people in the area of L.A., Long Beach and Santa Ana, has turned to GoFundMe for help replacing stolen items.

In July, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority started to use its new interim housing inventory system to place people into beds. Nonprofits say the system is often inaccurate and could be ...

The city of Troy is encouraging residents to donate to local nonprofits supporting the homeless instead of giving money to panhandlers. The city ha ...

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Through data compiled by the County DSS, or Department of Social Services, they’re estimating around 150 homeless people are in the county, and that same data shows that at the beginning of the year, ...

City of Binghamton Mayor Jared Kraham is facing backlash after allegedly threatening legal action against a local church for offering refuge to unhoused individuals.

Milwaukee has a poverty problem that usually doesn’t trigger outrage until something shocking happens – which happened on Sept. 16 when police discovered six children, ages 2 months to 9 years, locked ...

A homeless encampment outside Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Binghamton has disbanded following alleged legal threats from the city.

Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that sought to dramatically improve how students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan ...

One family’s story illustrates how some families are spending years in temporary housing, caught between rising rents and aid programs that cut off too soon.

Trump said on Saturday that he was directing the Department of Defense to 'provide all necessary troops to protect war ravaged Portland'.