Over a period of 90 days in 2014, Patricia Williams lost everything. A longtime school teacher in Ohio, she had been on leave for about six months taking care of her 17-year-old son, who was sick.

The first time the Rev. Joelle Henneman met Ivan Vance, he showed up in the snowy cold of a January morning to volunteer his time moving 10,000 pounds of produce from a parking lot indoors for a free ...

MARIETTA — Bob Hempen comes in to work at 6:30 a.m. to oversee MUST Ministries’ 136-bed homeless shelter. The doors won’t open for three and a half hours. But there are already people lining up, ...

New Life Center Executive Director Rob Swiers said the new, low-barrier overnight shelter is the "missing piece" the ...

The Rev. Larry Rice talks to a person in need in Downtown West St. Louis on Thanksgiving Day. It’s Thanksgiving morning, and around 60 people are lined up on Locust Street in front of what was once a ...

Nationwide, there were a record 152,585 chronically homeless people counted in January 2024, according to HUD. The number of chronically homeless increased by 7% over one year, and is up 27% since ...

An Asheboro church facing closure finds new life as a shelter for homeless women and children. When a church in Asheboro, NC faced closure, local leaders made a bold decision. Instead of shuttering ...

Bone-chilling temperatures may be waning, but the struggles faced by people experiencing homelessness won’t melt away with them.

Much of Joel Coplin's artwork depicts scenes of homeless life in his Phoenix neighborhood. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Artist Joel Coplin has spent the better part of three years painting what ...