Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homelessness in America has been steadily ticking up in recent years. In 2024, the United States saw an 18% increase in the ...

Your body heat is rising in this sweaty-packed crowd of 30,000 people descending upon a converted sports stadium, forced to cozy up next to one another amid an extraordinary public health emergency.

There is no single cause for homelessness in the United States, though it is a bleak circumstance that touches every community within our country. Too often, the definition is reduced to simply living ...

On July 24, Donald Trump issued yet another executive order, this one attempts to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people who are mentally ill or who are dealing with addiction, which ...

Anyone concerned about the numbers of people in the U.S. living in shelters, on the street, or doubled-up with relatives should read Maria Foscarinis' And Housing for All: The Fight to End ...

The skyrocketing cost of living has left millions of people struggling to afford a place to live despite working at full-time jobs or a number of part-time jobs. Journalist Brian Goldstone, author of ...

On the Tuesday, December 30, 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: The issue of homelessness continues to plague the U.S. One of the demographics hit hardest is students under the age of 18. USA TODAY ...

In the Newsweek article below, Giulia Carbonaro discusses local housing supply shortages as the largest factor in explaining homelessness rates with Sissi Li, Senior Data and Analytics Manager of the ...

An executive action taken by President Donald Trump on Thursday, aiming to push cities and states to remove homeless people from the streets, could make California governments' ability to secure ...

This week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will remove homeless encampments from Washington, DC. It came at a press conference in which he declared a public safety emergency ...

Homelessness advocates say that the order does not, in fact, assist the homeless in America's cities. On July 24, Donald Trump issued yet another executive order; this one attempts to make it easier ...