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Jawee Faheem grabbed his belongings from Lower Wacker Drive on Wednesday. “I don’t have much,” he said. “I have nothing really to be honest. This is all I need to take with me right now.” He’s getting out of the extreme cold and staying somewhere warm overnight. “You can sometimes wish for something and hope that something good would...

Seattle’s largest businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks will have to pay a new tax to help fund homeless services and affordable housing under a measure approved by city leaders. The City Council unanimously passed a compromise plan Monday that taxes businesses making at least $20 million in gross revenues about $275 per full-time worker each year — lower than...

In the same affluent, suburban city where Google built its headquarters, Tes Saldana lives in a crowded but tidy camper she parks on the street.

As Chicago’s City Council preps a Tuesday joint committee vote on regulations on house-sharing businesses, Airbnb issued a statement voicing opposition to the measure and asking lawmakers to postpone the vote.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is backing a proposal by Chicago aldermen that looks to use a 4 percent surcharge from house-sharing businesses, like Airbnb, to fund services for the city’s homeless.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the launch of a citywide taskforce Wednesday aimed at combatting homelessness in Chicago.

Rob Garofalo was devastated. He’d built his medical and research career on helping young AIDS patients. Then he learned that he, too, was HIV-positive. The news came after he’d already survived kidney cancer and a breakup with his longtime partner. Try as he might, the doctor could not heal himself, at least not emotionally. Then he got a Yorkshire terrier...