"The next mayor will undoubtedly hear plenty from the business community about their priorities. But New York's homeless ...

Under the city’s Partnership Assistance for Transit Homelessness, or PATH, cops and outreach workers made more than 20,000 contacts with homeless men and women on the subway and provided ...

The candidates’ views on addressing homelessness in New York City differ vastly, with calls to expand mental health services, overhaul the shelter system and change policing. By Anna Kodé More than ...

The search for a place to build a shelter in Manhattan resurfaced New York’s often overlooked history of slavery. The Bowery Residents’ Committee, a nonprofit, is building a homeless shelter on a site ...

The mayoral hopeful’s new ad honors trans icon Sylvia Rivera and promises protection, housing, and care for trans New Yorkers ...

For the first time in Grand Central Station’s history, there are no ads, just art.

As makeshift tent cities spring up across Canada to house rough sleepers who fear using shelters due to COVID-19, one city is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to predict which residents risk ...

New York City community leaders are looking to reimagine the Eighth Avenue corridor that thousands of Long Island commuters and others navigate between Penn Station and Times Square. Community members ...

The New York City Council wants to know how many homeless shelters lack air conditioning, and what it will cost to install it as climate change threatens even hotter summers.

Five candidates are seeking two three-year terms on the Sanford City Council in Sanford, Maine, during the Nov. 4 election.

A viral trend involving artificially generated images of a "homeless man" has prompted police warnings over safety concerns, with officials calling it "stupid and potentially dangerous." ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — On a sunny late-summer afternoon, Logan Whalen stood outside his barbershop in downtown Portland. Two homeless people who were huddled in a doorway nearby were using illegal drugs.