New York City will spend $650 million over the next five years to combat homelessness and mental illness, while increasing the number of police officers in the subway system.

The announcement comes after a series of horrifying attacks, including a woman torched and killed on the subway in Coney Island and three others stabbed to death at random in Manhattan.

Advocate groups in the city said up to 500 people could be out in the cold without a place to stay through the nights.

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Because many unhoused people around the city are spread far from downtown, First United Methodist Church of Baton Rouge is ...

The story about how homelessness among military veterans fell can tell us a lot about what we need to do in order to end the ...

Jennifer Gittelman has applied to many jobs since a layoff in April. She has 20 years of experience but says lacking a degree ...

Stringent eligibility cutoffs chosen by many states can have the unintended consequence of stymieing upward mobility.

Dalton said he believed Moore deserved to be punished. He called fentanyl a “scourge” and noted that he hasn’t hesitated to ...

She had become homeless, put her two older children into her father’s care and put the twins into the care of a family who ...