New York City spent roughly $81,000 per person on homeless services last year — amounting to a whopping $368 million in total ...

When homeless shelters allow people to stay with their dogs and other pets, more unhoused people become more willing to stay in a shelter. That’s what my team at the University of Southern ...

In a report released this March, the Office of the New York State Comptroller found that the city’s unsheltered population rose from 3,588 in FY2019 to 4,504 in FY2025. Over the same stretch, spending ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.

You've been misled by television and movies: Homeless stories aren't about people who are dangerous. Here's the reality from ...

Starting out as a young medical practitioner, Brett Feldman sometimes walked for miles to treat homeless people living in the wooded outskirts of Allentown, Penn. Feldman was determined to treat those ...

Across America this week, social services workers and volunteers are fanning out in their communities to count homeless people. The federal government mandates that a homeless census be conducted ...

Nokuthula Madonsela was one of the first to be counted. She was sleeping in a yard in Mabheshane section with several people. She said she dropped out of school in grade 11 and left her home in Buffer ...