NYPD detectives are looking for three men who set a sleeping homeless man on fire at Penn Station on Monday night. Police were called around 8:40 p.m. after, they said, the three approached the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will place the Department of Homeless Services in charge of the sweeps, replacing the Police Department as leader of the interagency efforts. By Emma Goldberg and Jeffery C. Mays ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism and questions from advocates for homeless New Yorkers after abruptly reversing his policy pledge to end homeless encampment sweeps. City Hall officials said ...

Much is at stake in Wichita’s upcoming 1% sales tax election. That includes continued funding for the city’s only low-barrier homeless shelter, where current funding is set to expire in the fall.

At a glance, it might look like Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is following the trends in the Bay Area — and the nation — in handling homelessness. The icon among progressives has cleared homeless camps ...

At Monday’s funeral of Carvell Curry, a homeless man found frozen outside South Station on a brutally cold night, some mourners wondered if this could happen again. Yes, it can. When temperatures fall ...

Bravo to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who is ending a ridiculous city program that spent $5 million a year to provide booze to homeless alcoholics. It sounds like an insane idea to begin with, ...

The homeless have a new perk thanks to Mayor Zohran Mamdani: turndown service. City sanitation workers did everything this week but put mints on the greasy pillows atop makeshift beds in a booming ...

A year after a canvass of the Inland Empire showed a slight increase in the number of residents living without permanent shelter, some cities are preparing to again measure homelessness in the region.

A brand new Los Angeles County homeless services department, paired with new, voter-approved sales tax dollars, were billed as a one-two punch that would dent the homeless crisis by taking more people ...

California cities may be forced to close homeless shelters next year if the legislature approves Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget. The $349 billion budget, which Newsom released Friday, would omit ...