Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 21-year-old Andia Anderson, life has been difficult. In a letter emailed to The Commercial Appeal Executive Editor Mark ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Tents, broken-down cars, piles of garbage and RVs line the streets off Southeast 80th and Powell. It's a residential neighborhood turned nightmare for families who live there. “I’m ...

It’s not easy finding a restroom in the Uptown area of Whittier and can be especially difficult if you’re homeless. So say 10 Whittier homeless men and women who filed claims — nine have been denied ...

Alabama passed a law that makes it illegal to panhandle or loiter on state highways and roadways. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law that makes panhandling and loitering on state roads a ...

LOWELL — Drivers wait for a green signal at the Plain Street intersection off the Lowell Connector. A short, red-haired woman walks up and down the off-ramp. “Homeless. Food Needed. Please Help. God ...

A coalition of housing advocates and politicians are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to take homeless funding off of the chopping block as the state looks for ways to deal with its impending ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Helta Exanville spent the night in tears, cradling her infant son as a tropical rain drummed on the tarp-and-tin roof overhead. Water leaked relentlessly through the seams, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Back home from a difficult Army tour in Iraq, it didn't take long for Kyle O'Hair's life to unravel. There were nightmares, anxiety and memories of death. He got hooked on drugs. He ...

Newly released numbers of the 2019 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority homeless count show a jump in unhoused people camping in the Sepulveda Basin, which community activists hope will lead to ...

Around tables, in little rooms in churches in communities all across the state; that is where the fight to end youth homelessness is being waged today. Monday night at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, a ...

For 21-year-old Andia Anderson, life has been difficult. In a letter emailed to The Commercial Appeal Executive Editor Mark Russell, she wrote: “I have been homeless since the fall of 2021. Just ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Back home from a difficult Army tour in Iraq, it didn’t take long for Kyle O’Hair’s life to unravel. There were nightmares, anxiety and memories of death. He got hooked on drugs ...