Survey: Not Enough Shelters for Nation's Homeless
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An estimated 754,000 people -- most of them minorities -- are homeless on any given night in the United States, according to a government survey presented to Congress today.
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In Lakewood, N.J., the homeless hunker down in three encampments. Connecting them is a minister who travels around in a bus delivering propane and heating stoves.
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Many houses of worship are under threat, crumbling from years of neglect, or becoming targets for acquisition by developers in neighborhoods where choice real estate is scarce.
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More than 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States are war veterans, although they represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
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Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the Depression, when homeless people were called Bowery bums and fresh air was the solution to just about all ills.
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By Associated Press  A state board awarded $440,224 on Thursday for a homeless shelter in Vernal, where the oil and gas boom has housing in short supply.
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By Susan E. White, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 3--VIRGINIA BEACH -- Virginia Beach may never eliminate homelessness, but city leaders say a proposed 10-year plan could help residents find affordable housing and prevent others from losing their homes.
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The city announced 10 winners of a $100,000 open design competition "to generate solutions for post-disaster provisional housing." The premise: a Category 3 hurricane, with 38,000 families left homeless.
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Most Americans who rely on just a full-time job earning the federal minimum wage cannot afford the rent and utilities on a one- or two-bedroom apartment, an advocacy group on low-income housing reported Monday.
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By CLARE NULLIS CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament Sunday, opening a weeklong event aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.
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Virginia lacks experienced psychiatrists to evaluate the mentally ill, there aren't enough beds for those seeking emergency treatment in many areas and hospitals are losing money on mentally ill patients, according to a state government report.
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A US government survey says the number of Americans living in poverty or without health insurance grew last year. The Census Bureau on Thursday said the number of poor people have climbed 1.3 million to 35.
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CALGARY - An outbreak of Norovirus was responsible for more than 140 people becoming ill at a Calgary homeless shelter last weekend, the city&#39;s deputy medical officer of health said Tuesday.
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Salt Lake County is moving forward on a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.  Thanks to a $250,000 grant through the state, the county can hire 20 full-time AmeriCorps volunteers. The volunteers will work with high-risk populations to keep them off the streets and put them into a home.
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Search is on for D.C. shelter for 50 veterans as dilapidated building is razed for development.
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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.
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WASHINGTON -- The youngest victims of the Asian tsunami waves may be homeless, traumatized, and possibly orphaned, but they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States, the State Department said yesterday.