homelessness

The county official in charge of monitoring the population of unhoused individuals said Monday that number is up by about 500 people compared to this time last year.

Broward County officials addressed the area’s surge of homeless people. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

Miami-Dade was awarded a $21 million grant by the federal government Thursday to fight homelessness in the county.

Miami-Dade was awarded a $21 million grant by the federal government Thursday to fight homelessness in the county.

Doug Emhoff, who is Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, paid a visit to the Chapman Partnership homeless facility on Monday.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, visited a homeless facility with Miami-Dade leaders. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

NBC 6’s Cherney Amhara is live from the City of Miami where Camillus House just received a 2 million dollars from Mayor Francis Suarez.

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.

Vice President of Development Arlene Peterson has more on the group’s efforts to empower the homeless you can help out with this week.

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.

“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.

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.

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Local filmmakers Roberto Donoso and Prashant Thakker discuss their new short film “The Woman Under the Tree” streaming now on Apple TV