homelessness

Olympian gold medal-winning gymnast, and local favorite Aly Raisman is partnering with York Athletics and a local non-profit to launch Fight For Home to provide free footwear for the homeless in Boston.

Advocates estimate 20 million Americans spend more than 30% of income on rent and are likely to experience homelessness. They predict numbers will rise during the pandemic.

Remote learning has been a challenge for many students and parents. But imagine having to deal with that challenge while experiencing homelessness. In Massachusetts, that’s the reality for 24,000 public school students.

A Place at the Table is a nonprofit restaurant that serves people who can’t afford to pay the cost of their meal side-by-side with those who can. The Raleigh, N.C.-based restaurant is owned by Maggie Kane, who wanted to create a place where the homeless can eat a meal with dignity.

A homeless man who risked his life to save the life of a D.C. police officer was reunited with his family this week after they spotted him on TV. They hadn’t seen him in eight years and had thought he was dead.  John Burrows jumped into action when he saw another homeless man attacking a police officer in downtown...

State housing advocates say Massachusetts will see a wave of evictions if certain pandemic-era protections are not extended. They predict the public health crisis will turn into a homelessness crisis, and they are calling on city and state leaders to help. When the pandemic hit, the Flores family in East Boston was forced to make a choice. “We had to…

For Portia Dayton, caring for her son in the days since his preschool was shuttered has been nervewracking. Dayton, a recovering addict, depends on support from Boston’s Horizons for Homeless Children as she works to change her circumstances. The nonprofit provides free early education, counseling and other services to ease the trauma of homelessness and give kids critical structure...

At City College of San Francisco, a dozen or so students have formed a community, living off the grid in solar-powered camper vans at the edge of campus, building and maintaining their tiny homes together. Faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some say it’s a financial decision to emerge from school with a small savings, rather...

In the shadow of Los Angeles’ world-famous Hollywood sign sits the newest LA landmark: piles of uncollected, rat-infested garbage, much of it piling up near homeless encampments. Even though Mayor Eric Garcetti pledged an additional $6 million per year last June to improve trash pick-up around encampments in Hollywood and across the entire city, the problem in some areas appears…

Liberty Mutual awarded a $450,000 grant to the local nonprofit More Than Words bookstore that employs and trains vulnerable young adults from the Boston area.

Homelessness in Rhode Island has declined by 4.2%, federal housing officials said Thursday. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual homeless assessment report to Congress. In Rhode Island, 1,055 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2019, which is down 4.2% since 2018 and down 17.7% since 2010, according to HUD. Neighboring Massachusetts saw…

Colton Bradford stops by thew newest

Urban Hound

location to learn how their new partnership with

St. Francis House

is helping homeless people transition into new careers.

The federal government is reporting a 2.7% increase in the nation’s homeless population driven by a spike in California, according to an annual count that took place in January 2019.

A man was found dead outside Los Angeles City Hall early Wednesday, likely the 963rd homeless person to die on the streets of LA County in 2019, officials said. “It really hits home when one of those human beings passes away in front of our workplace,” LA City Attorney Mike Feuer told reporters. Feuer was about to discuss his concerns…