A person sits on the curb amidst tents and belongings at a homeless encampment on the sidewalk in Skid Row in Los Angeles. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) Homeless encampments were markedly ...

Editor’s note: Today marks our fifth annual “State Of Homelessness” edition. This joint project involving nine Northern California Medianews Group newspapers began following a conference call among ...

Friday was World Homeless Day. It's a day to raise awareness and alleviate suffering related to homelessness. KPBS REPORTER Jacob Aere says here in San Diego, an event is being held to honor those ...

Jazmine Mapes has spent most of her life on the move. When she was a young child, she shuttled from city to city in Southern California as her parents broke up and got back together. Her dad was ...

City sweeps in Sacramento often discard water containers of unsheltered residents. Legal right to water in California contrasts with limited access for the homeless. Water delivery programs expired in ...

Tim Trenkle is a northeast Iowa writer. The street where the impoverished live, called "marginalized," is a term like "broken" that says he or she has less than you and is therefore invisible, yet ...

Little Rock has a homelessness problem. Hundreds of men, women and children live on the streets, in cars or vans, or in shelters. Some have lived that way for years. Most, however, don't want to be in ...

THROUGHOUT THE EVENING RIGHT HERE ON WESH TWO. NOW, THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE HARD FOR SOME WHO MAY NOT HAVE FAMILY, AND THERE ARE SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS LOOKING TO HELP OR INSPIRE SOMEONE WHO MAY BE HAVING ...

Children squirmed and adults chattered as they waited for the lights to dim ahead of a somewhat unusual stage performance at the Alberta Rose Theater last month. The musicians were all old hands, ...

The toxic empathy of Democratic policies on homelessness and drug use allows homeless drug addicts to slowly kill themselves in the streets and even prevents them from getting the treatment they need ...