Homeless

As bone-chilling temperatures have left thousands of people across Texas stuck indoors without power and heat, advocates for the homeless have taken to the streets to find those unable to take or find refuge, NBC News reports.

When census takers tried to count the nation’s homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort

With colder nights on the horizon, area warming shelters are preparing to open under COVID-19 restrictions. The Windham Region No Freeze Project will reopen for the season on Nov. 1. The shelter usually warms 30 to 40 people a night. However, this year, the team has to worry about protecting people from the elements and from COVID-19. With dividers in…

A man who won a settlement in an excessive force case against the LAPD says he recently discovered he had been reported as deceased to the U.S. government, which caused his disability income and access to critical medical and mental health care to be terminated.

When the coronavirus emerged in the U.S. this year, public health officials and advocates for the homeless feared the virus would rip through shelters and tent encampments, ravaging vulnerable people who often have chronic health issues.

A Place at the Table is a nonprofit restaurant that serves people who can’t afford to pay the cost of their meal side-by-side with those who can. The Raleigh, N.C.-based restaurant is owned by Maggie Kane, who wanted to create a place where the homeless can eat a meal with dignity.

A 38-year-old San Andreas man was charged with poisoning after prosecutors said he gave eight homeless people food laced with pepper spray in exchange for beer, causing several to be hospitalized after they suffered seizure-like symptoms, vomiting, and difficulty breathing in acts recorded on video. William Robert Cable was arrested May 22. He was charged with eight felony counts of…

One person was arrested after eight homeless people were given poisoned food that sent several to the hospital, Southern California authorities said Friday. The poisonings occurred over the course of about a week in mid-May in Huntington Beach in Orange County south of Los Angeles, authorities said. The victims were given food laced with oleoresin capsicum, “which is twice as…

A federal judge has ordered Los Angeles city and county to move thousands of homeless people who are living near freeways, saying their health is at risk from pollution and the coronavirus

A Hartford police officer who has made it his mission to help the city’s homeless during his career, is going the extra mile to make sure they are cared for during the coronavirus pandemic.

During this pandemic, with social distancing guidelines in place it’s been harder than ever for the homeless to find shelter and get much-needed resources. But there is a police officer in Hartford who has been helping the homeless in Hartford for years. “Instead of them coming to me, I got to them and I try to boost their morale….every...

A solution for isolating COVID-19 patients could help LA’s homeless population in the form of individual pods that give people a place to stay temporarily.  “It’s not an alternative for permanent, supportive housing. What this is, is a drastic improvement that’s going to help a lot of people get off the streets,” Jeremiah Adler of Agile Medical Systems said. ...

The City of New London, alongside multiple community partners, launched its first COVID-19 isolation site Monday afternoon. “We needed something immediately, we acted and we got it done,” said Chief Tom Curcio of the New London Fire Department. Curcio is also the city’s emergency management director. The isolation center is designed to help people who have to self isolate...

The city of Hartford has developed plans to create quarantine centers for any of the homeless who test positive the coronavirus, Mayor Luke Bronin announced Friday. The city is preparing the Willie Ware Community Center, on Windsor Street, and the Governor’s Foot Guard Armory, on High Street, to serve the homeless. Both locations are expected to be ready next...

They often don’t have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and crowd together in grimy camps. That’s what makes homeless people particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. Almost 200,000 people live in those conditions in the United States, according to a White House report, with Washington state, California and Oregon among the states most affected by homelessness...

A donation pile is growing after a hospitality center that serves Waterbury’s homeless was damaged in a fire Friday. “We were just watching like history just being destroyed,” Chris Bachard with the Hospitality Center said. It’s an image burned in Chris Bacahrd’s mind, the Hospitality Center in Waterbury destroyed by fire Friday but there is a new memory being...

Connecticut librarians can find themselves on the front lines of a community’s biggest challenges. From mental illness and drug use to poverty and crime, the life of a librarian may not be as easy – or as safe – as some might think. NBC Connecticut Investigates obtained records from police departments across the state which showed there were thousands of…

Note: This story contains graphic phrases and imagery.  Statistics estimate 36,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles, but the city isn’t providing bathrooms to most of them. As the NBCLA I-Team has found, the tons of human waste landing on city streets are creating an urgent public health threat. In one act caught on camera, a homeless man is...

Steve Albrecht is a former police officer who now works with libraries to teach staff how to deescalate tense situations.

The Palazzo Migliori, named after the family who donated it to the Roman Catholic Church, had served as the headquarters for an order of religious women, who vacated it last year. But the Calasanziane order that occupied the building for 70 years and used it to help and care for young single mothers has since relocated to another location. One…