New York City spent roughly $81,000 per person on homeless services last year — amounting to a whopping $368 million in total ...

In a report released this March, the Office of the New York State Comptroller found that the city’s unsheltered population rose from 3,588 in FY2019 to 4,504 in FY2025. Over the same stretch, spending ...

When homeless shelters allow people to stay with their dogs and other pets, more unhoused people become more willing to stay in a shelter. That’s what my team at the University of Southern ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.

One of the major issues awaiting Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani when he takes office on Jan. 1 will be how to approach New York City's growing street homelessness crisis. Mamdani has pledged to end ...

Across America this week, social services workers and volunteers are fanning out in their communities to count homeless people. The federal government mandates that a homeless census be conducted ...

Nokuthula Madonsela was one of the first to be counted. She was sleeping in a yard in Mabheshane section with several people. She said she dropped out of school in grade 11 and left her home in Buffer ...