Clothes on a fence near Route 72 indicate activity at a homeless encampment in New Britain. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror The stigma of poverty is deeply painful for many unhoused citizens ...

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Soroptimist International of Vacaville, Gail Thomson, co-founder of the local nonprofit A Hand Up, delivered a powerful presentation on the growing homelessness crisis in ...

As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking shelves at a toy store on the edge of L.A.'s Skid Row when he noticed the first signs of a monumental change in the city.

Almost a year after it formed, a major homeless encampment in St. Paul has remained relatively clean and calm, with dumpsters ...

So columnist Victor Joecks thinks solving the homeless problem is simple (Friday Review-Journal). Rejoin society? How, given the lack of affordable housing and programs to fix the problems that put ...

SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ)-- Jill Sweet shares her life on the road as a vanlifer across social media, many of her posts highlighting staying in Central Oregon. But one video is going viral, after Sweet ...

This country has a problem with senior homelessness that’s getting worse, not better. More than 2.35 million older adult households in the United States are paying more than half of their limited ...

NASHUA, N.H. – Nashua and Lowell are considered mid-sized cities with populations of about 90,000 and 114,000, respectively. Both are former mill communities once powered by rivers that played ...

The White House has promised swift action on homelessness. It aims to dismantle encampments, force addicts and the mentally ill into treatment, and yank federal funds from cities that refuse to police ...

With Connecticut officials speculating more than a dozen people have died out in the cold in the past two months, advocates are calling for more resources to help the rising number of unhoused in the ...