A couple of Norridge officers were observed purchasing new shoes for a homeless man and then watching to make sure they fit. They did this not knowing someone had taken a picture and did not wish to be personally recognized. WBBM spoke with the two officers by telephone to talk about the good deed. They said they were called Dec. 29 to a bus shelter, where a homeless man was sitting with a bunch of blankets.

An "unprecedented" 7,000 people are now homeless in Ireland, with one family losing their home every day last month and a shocking 2,549 children now living in emergency accommodation, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith and Joyce Fegan. The Department of Housing confirmed the situation yesterday amid opposition party claims Government is trying to "bury bad news" during the New Year's Eve celebrations.

Every night for the past year or so, Adriana and Omar Chavez have slept in an RV parked in East Palo Alto, a downtrodden community in Silicon Valley. On a recent morning before sunrise, they emerged on to the empty street. Omar showed his phone to his wife: 7.07am. “Shall I wake up the girls?” he said, his breath visible in the freezing air.

London’s housing crisis is the single biggest barrier to prosperity, growth and fairness facing Londoners today. And the scourge of rough sleeping and homelessness – something many of us see on the streets of London every single day – is the sharpest end of this housing crisis. Last year, more than 8,000 people slept rough in the capital at some point – a 6% rise on the previous year, and more than double compared with eight years ago.

Each night, tens of thousands of people sleep in tent cities crowding the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles, far more than any other city in the nation. The homeless population in the entertainment capital of the world has hit new record highs in each of the past few years. But a 39-year-old struggling musician from South LA thought he had a creative fix. Elvis Summers, who went through stretches of homelessness himself in his 20s, raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding campaigns last spring.

Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down. [Video with transcript]

When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the world gives you an underpass, make it your home. That seems to be the philosophy of this homeless man who has turned an underpass into his own spot of paradise. Supercool Ceola Waddell Jr, 59, has lived under a road in LA for the last six months. But he’s living in relative luxury with two toilets, sofas, a bed and even a jacuzzi.

A court in Ontario has agreed to quash $65,000 Canadian dollars worth of tickets racked up during one man’s nine-year stint living on the streets, in a case that has sparked debate on the effectiveness of legislation that criminalises homelessness. Gerry Williams spent years trapped in a cycle of alcoholism and homelessness. Encounters with the police often left him with a battery of tickets for non-criminal offences, from drinking in public to loitering. At the time, he paid little attention.

The Rev. Andy Bales heads out the glass doors of the Union Rescue Mission in a suit and tie. He rolls his wheelchair toward the sun-baked concrete of Skid Row, then stops and wrinkles his nose...

A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US’ hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories. By Carolyn Bick.

In order to pay for its pricey plan-of-attack to eradicate homelessness in Los Angeles County, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is audaciously attempting to place a 'millionaire's tax' on the November ballot for the voters' consideration. The proposed tax would take a half-percent of personal incomes exceeding $1 million annually countywide, and devote the revenue towards funding the county government's 47-point plan for ending homelessness in Los Angeles. According to a poll conducted for the county government, a whopping 76 percent of L.A. County residents favor the proposed tax on...

The city of Los Angeles has approved a deal for nonprofit and private developers to convert “nuisance" motels into 500 permanent supportive apartments for homeless veterans. Officials called it a major step forward toward developing large-scale housing for hundreds of homeless veterans. Advocates say about 2,700 homeless veterans remain in the county, despite an intensive drive by local and federal officials..

These California students engineered cost-effective housing for local homeless people.

Who can blame a homeless man for stealing a small amount of food from a grocery store? Certainly not Italy's Supreme Court. Five years ago, Ukrainian national Roman Ostriakov was homeless in Genoa when he was caught stealing cheese and sausage worth less than $5, the Telegraph reports. He was fined $115 and sentenced to six months in jail in 2015, a sentence that he appealed. On Monday, the Italian Supreme Court ruled in his favor.

A new injunction limits the city's ability to seize and destroy the property of Skid Row residents. By Elijah Chiland.

Not many people have had positive experiences with buses. The slow moving, perpetually late mode of transport is normally associated with swearing, anger and frantically refreshing iPhone apps to discover that you’ve actually been looking at the wrong route on the wrong day and the next one doesn’t come for another 2 hours. Let’s not even talk about public holidays.

The Los Angeles City Council approved a law Wednesday to rein in the tent-and-tarpaulin encampments whose dramatic spread has raised the political stakes of handling one of the nation's worst homeless crises. The ordinance -- a revised version of the law known as 56.11 that was adopted in June -- limits storage on sidewalks, parkways and alleys citywide to what homeless people can fit in a 60-gallon container, about the size of a city recycling or trash bin.

A woman who was helped by a homeless man after missing her last train home has raised thousands of pounds for him on a crowdfunding site.

The woods are an attractive option for people who want to live off the grid, or a last resort for those with nowhere else to go. But indefinite camping is damaging forests. By Garnet Henderson.

A developer keen to lift Detroit aims to transform one of Motown's legendary automotive plants from an abandoned factory to a mixed-use urban space. But amid the renewal, what's to become of the man who has lived there alone for the past nine years?