Homelessness

NBC 5’s Sandra Torres found out District 168 has gone above and beyond to help students and families experiencing homelessness. This is the second part of her series called “Homeless Youth Crisis.”

This weekend, hundreds of people in DuPage County will give up their beds and sleep outside to raise awareness for homelessness.

A “sleep-out” event is being held in DuPage County to help raise awareness for homelessness in the area, NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Some of the biggest increases are in West Coast cities such as Sacramento and Portland, Oregon. Numbers are also up about 30% in South Dakota and Prince George’s County, Maryland, and 15% in Asheville, North Carolina.

Traditional homeless shelters have usually been off-limits to pets. Here is how one interim housing site is helping keep owners and pets together and a look at how the state of California is trying to tackle homelessness by helping pets get off the street too.

Migrants are being sent from Texas to NYC with paperwork theoretically directing them to shelters – but in many cases the addresses are wrong and aren’t shelters at all, but offices or non-family facilities.

An artist who experienced homelessness himself is now committed to changing the perception of homeless people. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

“We’re seeing a huge boom in senior homelessness,” said Kendra Hendry, a caseworker at Arizona’s largest shelter, where older people make up about 30% of those staying there

Prosecutors say a man suspected of shooting five homeless people in Washington and New York City and killing two of them appeared to hold up a phone and play music after he shot one of the victims.

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, recently banned camping on the sides of certain roadways, and officials are exploring other aggressive options to combat homelessness

As a child, East Side Riders Bike Club co-founder John Jones III was told there were lines he couldn’t cross in the neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles. Today, he and his organization — co-founded by his father — regularly cross those gang lines by bicycle to deliver meals to anyone struggling with homelessness or food insecurity.

One man who is homeless in Chicago shared his story, prompting a woman to anonymously reach out and provide temporary housing amid the bitter cold temperatures. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

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...

The Covid pandemic caused a surge in housing costs and a rise in unemployment, leaving nearly 600,000 Americans unhoused in 2020.

A deluge of applications has forced some states to shut their federal rental assistance programs earlier than expected.