Homeless

Driving down Wisconsin Avenue, one of the main arteries in Washington, D.C., I took note of a homeless man on the median strip. His sign, asking for help, in block letters, included a way to send him money via Venmo. I confess I was taken aback—something about the introduction of…

Sydney’s housing crisis is ­driving a wave of “working homeless” – residents who can’t find or afford a home despite holding a job – with the situation so bad an encampment of tents and car-sleepers has emerged in the heart of Anthony Albanese’s inner-west electorate.  A man has been shot…

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Former Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, is taking top House Republican Elise Stefanik to task for spreading a story about migrants that was recently shown to be a hoax. Stefanik, the representative for New York's 21st Congressional District and third highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, shared a…

Using doctored receipts and offering cash payments, a N.Y. nonprofit duped lawmakers and conservative media into ginning up anti-immigrant outrage A scandalous claim that homeless veterans being housed in an upstate New York hotel were evicted to make room for undocumented migrants turned out to be an orchestrated fraud —…

“Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates,” a New York Post headline from last week read. “New York Hotels Evicting Homeless Veterans to House Migrants,” Newsweek said days later, joining in the outrage. “As many as 20 homeless veterans were booted from hotels…

NEW YORK (AP) — In the polarizing wake of Jordan Neely’s chokehold death at the hands of a fellow New York City subway rider, there has been a “distortion of values,” Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday in eulogizing the former subway performer at his funeral. Neely, who had been struggling…

Politics Advocates for the homeless are always saying that the problem is caused by housing shortages; the migration surge will make the problem exponentially worse. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) In a condensed symbol of the ruling party's contempt for American citizens, officials in New York City…

More than two weeks after Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old mentally ill and homeless Black man was choked to death on the New York City subway by a former Marine, reaction to the killing has broken down along familiar political fault lines. Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old man who placed Neely in…

Many of the unhoused people in Portland, Oregon, live in tents pitched on sidewalks or in aging campers parked in small convoys behind grocery stores. Mental illness can be part of the story of how a person ends up homeless — or part of the price of survival on the…