Homelessness has become a social disaster on a scale unseen since the Great Depression. It’s a structural crisis that’s escalated to a degree that, despite the best efforts of status-quo neoliberalism to hand-wave it away, can no longer be denied – and neither can its causes.

The Chandler Street Tiny Home Village has opened in North Hollywood. The village, which has 40 homes and 75 beds for people experiencing homelessness, is one of the first communities of this kind to open its doors in Los Angeles County. Redondo Beach set up a similar village in 2020.

Tests are underway to if the pods protect against frostbite. If so, they could be rolled out across Germany 

The Legislature, addressing hardship caused by the pandemic, convened an unusual special session between Christmas and New Year’s to pass the measure.

Without federal intervention, as many as 40 million people could be displaced amid an ongoing and still worsening pandemic.

"This is a very dangerous moment in terms of the welfare of the American people."

New research by UCSF shows Santa Clara County’s approach to housing its sickest and most desperate homeless residents is working.

About 19 to 23 million people are estimated to be at risk of being evicted after federal programs to help 30 million unemployed Americans expired in July. One night last week instead of sleeping Florence Hobbs hopped around her apartment on a broken ankle, trying to pack everything she owned as fast as was possible. Her landlord had given her a 24-hour eviction notice and she didn’t want her things tossed out of the apartment in Charleston, South Carolina, when the clock ran out.

The news: A new study has found that it's significantly cheaper to house the homeless than leave them on the streets. University of North Carolina Charlotte researchers released a study on Monday that tracked chronically homeless adults housed in…

The wealthiest country in human history has trouble keeping its people housed, even in good times. In 2017, the United States boasted one of the strongest economies in the world, and nearly half of its tenants were rent burdened. A majority of households in the bottom quintile of our nation’s income distribution give more than 40 percent of their disposable income to landlords each month. Only three other developed countries force their poor to shoulder heavier housing costs.

Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, marking a major milestone in the company’s multiyear $2.5 billion commitment to combat the housing crisis in the state. The funding will support thousands of Californians with first-time homebuyer assistance or new affordable housing units.

Police in Los Angeles have been slammed after shooting a wheelchair-bound homeless man in the face with a rubber bullet during a crackdown on protesters.

Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. The streets on clear days had a liquid energy, and seemed to offer opportunities that he hadn’t had before. “It was a place where I could do what I wanted to do,” he told me recently. He began to call the city home.

Michael Laffoon has a vivid memory of the day he decided to piece his life back together. “I literally woke up in my van and I thought ‘I can’t do this anymore because I’m going to die,’” he says. “It was just an overwhelming feeling that I had come to the end of a chapter.”

Last year, Bezos ostensibly donated out of the good of his heart to Seattle's homeless shelters — while Amazon aggressively lobbied the city to drop a tax which would help the homeless.

I was born on the south side of Glasgow. I was heading for a life of crime in my teens because I was in with some bad people. After a brush with the law, I headed as far south as I could go before I hit the sea. I ended up in Brighton.

When Lisa Peterson became homeless, she spent months without a bed of her own. But her phone never left her sight. Driving across the country, couch-surfing and staying in crisis accommodations, Lisa would charge her phone at train stations and use free public Wi-Fi to stay connected.

And the Bay Area’s ten largest cities combined sport three empty homes for every two persons without one.

The homeless population in the US increased 2.7% this year largely because of a surge in unsheltered and chronically homeless individuals in California, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said in a news release Friday.

The Supreme Court will not review an appellate decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the streets.