On Thursday, crews started turning dirt in Salt Lake City’s Euclid neighborhood as Valley Behavioral Health officially broke ground on a 68-bed facility for residents experiencing homelessness. The ...

California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population, at about 116,000 individuals. That is down from 124,000 in 2024, but up 7 ...

The homeless have a new perk thanks to Mayor Zohran Mamdani: turndown service. City sanitation workers did everything this week but put mints on the greasy pillows atop makeshift beds in a booming ...

The coming snowstorm will be an inconvenience for most people. For those with no homes, it’s life-threatening, say homeless outreach workers. These officials are sounding the alarm amid predictions ...

Local advocates in Columbus and Franklin County conduct a federally mandated count of the homeless population each January. The annual Point-in-Time count helps determine how federal and local ...

California cities may be forced to close homeless shelters next year if the legislature approves Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget. The $349 billion budget, which Newsom released Friday, would omit ...

Sacramento County, like many communities across the state, hasn’t attempted to physically count the number of homeless people since January 2024, per federal guidelines. Yet on Thursday from ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — On the first day of 2026, many people facing homelessness on Portland streets carried over ongoing challenges as they looked ahead to the new year. "My New Year's resolution is to ...

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 ...

We say we don’t want to see it, but we also can’t seem to get enough. Visible homelessness, like a car wreck, both horrifies and transfixes us. Or many of us. We hate to witness the “squalor” of ...

When Amaris Roman cradled her infant daughter in the backseat of her car, she never imagined motherhood would begin without a home. “We were living out of the car and hopping from house to house,” ...