One state accounted for close to a quarter of the nation’s homeless population, according to an annual report.

At the LA Times Festival of Books, authors discuss structural housing challenges, the realities of family homelessness, and ...

Economic pain at home and abroad from the war in Iran is placing millions of Americans at risk of financial ruin, following years of housing scarcity and employment volatility. Brian Goldstone, in his ...

There is no single cause for homelessness in the United States, though it is a bleak circumstance that touches every community within our country. Too often, the definition is reduced to simply living ...

The homelessness crisis in America reached record heights in 2024, with staggering numbers that paint a sobering picture of our nation's most vulnerable population. When volunteers and workers ...

Americans pour staggering amounts of money into the fight against homelessness every year through federal programs, state funding and private donations. Yet a new analysis argues that despite the ...

On the Tuesday, December 30, 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: The issue of homelessness continues to plague the U.S. One of the demographics hit hardest is students under the age of 18. USA TODAY ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking ...

Homelessness advocates say that the order does not, in fact, assist the homeless in America's cities. On July 24, Donald Trump issued yet another executive order; this one attempts to make it easier ...

Most of these early 20th-century buildings in the East Downtown Historic District of Spokane, Wash., once served as single-room-occupancy hotels. Homelessness in America is at a record high. It may ...

Tens of thousands of veterans were homeless around the time President Donald Trump pledged on the campaign trail to ensure no one who served in the U.S. military would be homeless by the time he left ...