Homelessness

Though the affordable housing shortage is key, mental illness increases the risk of losing a home and makes it harder to regain one.

We're going to need a lot of money and cooperation to address homelessness.

Getting an unhoused person into a home can cost $10,000 a year — and more than 580,000 people are unhoused on any given night.

The homelessness crisis is being punctuated in the nation's most populous city by sky-high rents and rising prices, says the CEO of the Bowery Mission, a New York City-based nonprofit.

In Missouri, it’s now illegal. In Tennessee, it can be a felony. But criminalizing homelessness could make it harder for people to find homes.

When service providers lease buildings, it can speed up the availability of housing that comes with social services.

A growing number of new facilities around the country are designed to give people experiencing homelessness a place to recover after they’ve been discharged from the hospital.

Housing vouchers can change recipients' lives but often come after years of waiting.

The pandemic response program provided billions of dollars that were meant to help get unhoused people into permanent housing.

If the city lacks enough homeless housing, the proposal would allow a homeless person to sue. But short-term shelter must be accepted.