Homelessness

Despite an increased commitment of federal and state dollars, a high rate of homelessness among the nation's veterans remains a complex and persistent problem. It is encouraging when veterans themselves step up to help solve it. The LaFlamme-Kusek...

Congregations in Newport News and Hampton are about to launch their annual winter shelters, and for the next 20 to 23 weeks churches and temples will serve as vital ports in a storm. But even good people of faith can only do so much for so long. Then...

On the television over by the wall, the evening news is saying that the governor will cut $35 million from state agencies and commissions. The men at South Park Inn are suitably attentive. South Park is one of Hartford's overburdened homeless shelters....

When a homeless man uses the steps of the Women's Club as a toilet, things have gotten out of control. When the historical society has to hire security to guard a party's wedding cake from vagrants, something's got to give. Fort Lauderdale officials said...

Children from violent homes too often end up living in shelters or hotel rooms, and they are more likely to suffer developmental delays, do poorly in school and become incarcerated, addicted or suicidal as adults. That was the conclusion of a panel of...

He had called the multi-ethnic Mid-Wilshire neighborhood home for more than a decade. Sitting outside a shuttered dental office near Berendo and 3rd streets, the homeless man with the Buddha-like frame rarely asked for money. But he got it anyway....

Mike Solomon will hit the streets tomorrow for all the right reasons. Homeless last year, and hooked for much of his life on drugs and booze, he has since recovered and will compete in the half-marathon at the Baltimore Running Festival. Gone are the...

Is Lohan moving nearer to her LI roots? Long Island native Lindsay Lohan is reportedly planning to buy a place at the Dakota, the Upper West Side apartment building where John Lennon lived. News of the World reports that she is looking to move into the...

ST. LOUIS (AP) _ A homeless shelter here is going way beyond providing hot meals and a bed for the night. The St. Patrick Center this week opened a new small business incubator and trades training center with a goal of helping the homeless, or those at...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) _ There's been a surge in the number of homeless families in Massachusetts — a spike that has overwhelmed the state's shelter capacity and forced it to again place homeless families in motels. It's an increase driven by the...

Nobody in Leesburg need go hungry on Monday. Thank you, Lake County. Money poured in from a variety of sources when people who live here learned that First Baptist Church of Leesburg ran out of cash to provide dinner for the homeless. The program...

The guy sounds angry -- or maybe scared. Either way, I don't blame him. I have, after all, wandered into his living room without an invitation. He doesn't know me, and if our roles were reversed, I'd be angry/scared, too. His crash pad is at the back...