All news on the topic: Homelessness

The Georgia House of Representatives approved a measure on Wednesday that might permit property owners to sue city and county governments if they do not enforce state laws concerning homelessness, public safety, and immigration.

Former LA schools superintendent Austin Beutner announced his candidacy against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, criticizing the city as “adrift” under her leadership. Beutner highlights rising costs, safety concerns, and homelessness as key issues he aims to address.

When Brenna Poppe moved into the Civic Hotel from the damp streets of Seattle in late 2022, she cried with joy. Over the next year at the city-sponsored homeless shelter, she would meet other guests who shared the same feelings — overwhelmed by the sudden realization that tonight, they would not sleep outside.

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing homeless individuals with mental health problems who refuse assistance.

Downtown LA was making a comeback, but unchecked crime and vagrancy turned it into a business graveyard.

A homeless man in New York has been emotionally reunited with his dog after a callous subway rider took the pup from him while he was asleep on a train in The Bronx

Ross Judd stands accused of the murder of 39-year-old Athena Georgopoulos and the brutal decapitation of her partner, 50-year-old Andrew Gunn, whose head was impaled on a spike during a horrific incident at their Melbourne, Australia residence on Monday night

Roughly a week after Los Angeles dismantled Erik's viral homeless treehouse in South Central LA, he's begun reconstructing it

Authorities reported that a woman lost her life after being attacked by a group of stray dogs near a park in San Bernardino

Under Trump's directive, government money will be allocated solely to housing initiatives that mandate treatment for addicts and those with mental illnesses. Furthermore, the funds cannot be utilized to support drug use

A homeless man was found unconscious at a terminal in LaGuardia Airport on Saturday and later died of cardiac arrest at the hospital, according to authorities and law-enforcement sources.

"Shuffling individuals from one street to another or cycling them between the street and jail won't fix this issue," stated Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

The Adams administration and the council have been embroiled in a prolonged and heated conflict over changes that would adjust eligibility for services provided by the City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement, referred to as CityFHEPS

People living in a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood are growing concerned about their safety as more aggressive squatters cause chaos by starting fires and assaulting their property staff

Routine patrol cops came along just in time Thursday to cuff a shoplifter on Coney Island’s boardwalk — while one of the NYPD’s special new “quality-of-life” teams ignored a crew of apparently strung-out homeless junkies who commandeered a nearby gazebo.

Neighbor Binh Nguyen said he was texting with grieving mother Whitney Decker about the missing girls.

Chapman Hamborg was walking around his neighborhood in Huntington Beach with his daughter Florence in a baby wrap carrier on April 22, as he had done multiple times before, to give his wife a little break, when a concerned neighbor, who feared he had kidnapped the child.

Democrats are fighting to undermine the way of life in small-town America, as demonstrated by a disastrous bill in Connecticut that is on the verge of becoming law

The three young sisters who vanished while visiting their troubled and homeless father have been found dead, police said Tuesday.

Police are looking for Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia Decker, 5, who were last seen on May 30 during a scheduled visit with their father, who is homeless, in Wenatchee, Washington, according to authorities

Chilling video shows a sick firebug calmly setting a homeless woman on fire -- leaving her so severely burned she was intubated and unable to identify her attacker for several weeks.

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom is urging cities to prohibit homeless encampments and is leveraging state funds to press the matter

Mayor Eric Adams took a victory lap over changes to New York law that will make it easier to force mentally ill people into treatment.

Social workers with coffee urns aren't going to do diddly for our suffering mentally ill homeless.

Jonathan Turley, writing for The Hill, suggests that President Trump’s decision to “limit government funding for NPR and PBS” is “an opportunity for the media to engage in much-needed introspection.”