HUD requires communities to send out volunteers to tally homeless individuals one by one, often undercounting the number of people experiencing homelessness.
There are growing calls in San Diego to provide housing or resources for housing after patients are done receiving urgent medical care.
As one of the city's three shelter tents is set to come down, the city must figure out what to do with the 150 folks staying there who will need to move elsewhere.
From scooter start-ups to public-health issues, sidewalks have long been a dumping ground for all kinds of policy failures.
Faced with a growing housing problem, Berlin boroughs have started to pay for homeless E.U. migrants to return to their native country.
A subset of architecture is actively antagonist to the comfort of the homeless.
The government has called the new Rental Assistance Demonstration program the "answer" to housing woes, but there's very little evidence to support that case.
Treatment for teens with drug problems can be stigmatizing and punitive. Advocates say that recovery high schools offer a kinder, less dogmatic, and more effective alternative.
First introduced in 1992, the Housing First model suggested that we fight homelessness by first giving the homeless a place to live. Twenty-four years later, the study of a program in Hamilton, Ontario, sheds some light on how the system is working today.
Turning unloved federal property into homeless services centers has been federal law for a quarter century, but tough times have bureaucrats hoping to shove that tradition into the cold.
Bucking a trend, a new book shows that group living can inoculate the homeless who are mentally ill against a return to the streets.
Two social ills come together in Miami for a positive outcome, at least on a small scale.
Two studies, one in Chicago and the other in Seattle, prove we can save health care dollars by housing and helping the homeless.
Three innovators have created an approach that has greatly reduced — and just might end — homelessness.
A host of meaningful stories from Miller-McCune.com's first full year on the Web.
As homelessness too often accompanies mental illness in the United States, one project tackles both issues.
Much of the money spent on the severely mentally ill is spent putting and holding them in prison.