TAMPA, Fla. — We met Marketaia Ingram on the patio of Karma Nest, a Tampa hotel where she's been living since Oct. 1. Ingram didn't expect to be there so long. "No, not at all. Maybe one or two months ...

When you think of homelessness, who do you see? Perhaps the image of someone asking for money or food. Or an individual sleeping under a bridge, on the train, or on a park bench. What we typically don ...

Nonprofits are required to comply with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s definition of homelessness, which includes four different situations where an individual would be ...

As schools prepare for the expiration of a pandemic-era surge in funding to aid homeless students, advocates are concerned that those vulnerable children aren’t counted in a critical data collection ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about whether a small Oregon city can cite and prosecute homeless people for sleeping in public places when they have nowhere else to lay their heads.

Federal rules force many families to sleep in cars, shelters and on the street before they can get housing assistance, but an unusual Washington State program takes a different approach Students at ...

There are over 23 million children in the United States. In 2019-2020, roughly 1.3 million of them were considered homeless by the U.S. Department of Education. That’s roughly one child per classroom ...

Homelessness among people over the age of 50 is on the rise, a phenomenon formal housing strategies often overlook -- but researchers from the University of Toronto and McGill hope to prevent this ...

Will updating the definition of “chronic homelessness” shift the dial on alleviating homelessness? That is the objective of a bipartisan group of lawmakers behind recent legislation that seeks to ...

California has allocated a dedicated one-time grant to help schools identify homeless students.