Commentary: For nearly a decade, homelessness has been on the rise. If we are making progress, one would expect our leaders ...

On the Tuesday, December 30, 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: The issue of homelessness continues to plague the U.S. One of the demographics hit hardest is students under the age of 18. USA TODAY ...

DENVER’s mayor is Mike Johnston, with a “t”. Its unofficial “mayor of the streets” is Mike Johnson, with a teardrop tattoo and a soft voice—your correspondent can barely hear him over a karaoke ...

The No. 7 train was the warmest place for Iden Campbell McCollum to sleep. He took the subway to his job at Burger King, and spent many nights looping its route to Flushing, curled up over heaters ...

Your body heat is rising in this sweaty-packed crowd of 30,000 people descending upon a converted sports stadium, forced to cozy up next to one another amid an extraordinary public health emergency.

In the Newsweek article below, Giulia Carbonaro discusses local housing supply shortages as the largest factor in explaining homelessness rates with Sissi Li, Senior Data and Analytics Manager of the ...

CNN Hero Andrew Lunetta and his nonprofit, A Tiny Home for Good, offer stability, dignity, and ongoing support to help break ...

For years, Americans have been told that "compassion" for the homeless meant writing ever-larger checks – more money, more programs and far less accountability. Now, at last, we have some answers for ...

In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally released the long-awaited homelessness numbers for 2025, revealing a 3.3% decrease in overall homelessness between January ...

A person sleeps on the sidewalk on the first day of a statute that took effect, making it illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces — one of the ...

It is a crisis born from the collapse of accountability at every level of the system. Nowhere are the consequences of that collapse more visible than in California — and especially in its capital city ...

The man with the scraggly beard holding a WILL WORK FOR FOOD sign. The woman in tattered clothes muttering to herself as she pushes a supermarket cart of her belongings across the street. People ...