The Vancouver City Council on Monday agreed to buy a $1.3 million metal building for a planned homeless shelter.

Black and Native Americans were disproportionately represented among the homeless -- the state’s population is 6% Black and roughly 2% Native or Indigenous, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The study found that more than 500 majority-Black neighborhoods have been affected by gentrification over the past 50 years.

Born in Chicago, and now living in London, she explained: "I'm used to seeing it so much in Vancouver and California and other areas that I spent time. You don't often see it as much in the UK ...

A majority, 40%, were black. Although the total number of homeless families declined by 5% between 2018 and 2019, 52% of homeless families in 2019 were black.

Karen's plan to end the Black woman's event backfired, as police allowed the Black woman to continue helping the community. By Noah A. McGee Published June 26, 2024 ...

The percentage of Black people in Sacramento’s homeless population, already vastly overrepresented, has again increased. Although only 9% of Sacramento’s general population is Black, Black ...

Vancouver is trying something different in dealing with low-level crimes most often committed by those who are homeless — offering more opportunity than punishment.

But the city had some suggestions about where members of the encampment could relocate outside city limits: Hard-to-read black and white maps were handed out to residents, housed and unhoused, at ...

The opposing attorney argued that those laws punish people for being homeless and “turn the city’s homelessness problem into someone else’s problem” by forcing them into other jurisdictions.

A spokesperson for the city said in 2023, 43 homeless people who were either unsheltered or in supportive housing, died. Of those deaths, 11 were from overdoses. That's up from five in 2022.

Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day attendees light candles Dec. 21 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Vancouver. Between mid-December and late January eight homeless people died.