Over a period of 90 days in 2014, Patricia Williams lost everything. A longtime school teacher in Ohio, she had been on leave for about six months taking care of her 17-year-old son, who was sick. When he passed away,

The city of Los Angeles violated the constitutional rights of the homeless people when their belongings and property was confiscated during encampment cleanups, a federal judge ruled Friday. The ruling was the result of lawsuit filed by seven homeless people who were living in neighborhoods from Van Nuys to Harbor City as well as two community organizations,

Detectives are examining possible connections among the four slayings in Willowbrook. Former NFL lineman Kevin Johnson was one of the victims.

Listing challenges that our neighbors face without acknowledging context leaves readers with incomplete narratives and is ill-advised and harmful, as it provides only a list of malices and damaging labels, rather than a list of solutions and knowledge of where to go to obtain support.

Multnomah County’s Homeless Services Department has proposed closing 675 shelter beds as one tactic for addressing an $87 million hole in its budget for the next fiscal year. The news is a blow to shelter providers,

A heartbreaking 96% of pleas to help homeless New Yorkers never actually led to any assistance since the deadly cold snap hit the Big Apple  — with city workers unable to even find the

In a lawsuit over L.A.'s seizure of homeless people's belongings, a federal judge found the city modified or fabricated records in more than 100 camp cleanups, tainting the evidence so much that a fair trial was not possible.