WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to end “endemic vagrancy” — and rehouse homeless people, including drug addicts and those suffering from ...

The number of homeless students in the US has rapidly increased since 2005. What fixes are needed to stabilize families?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHOENIX (AP) — Karla Finocchio’s slide into ...

A person sleeps on the sidewalk on the first day of a statute that took effect, making it illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces — one of the ...

1.7 million youth are homeless & alone in the U.S. annually. Vicki Sokolik is the founder and CEO of Starting Right, Now (SRN), a nonprofit that provides social and health services to homeless ...

A reader says the state's position is that not having a home makes one dangerous. Also letters on Polk's cat policy, texting ...

President Trump is promising to sweep homeless people off America’s streets. One controversial part of his plan could force thousands of people into institutions where they would be treated “long-term ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking ...

Some 57,700 people are living in conditions that constitute slavery in the United States right now, according to report released today, with undocumented immigrants, refugees, and homeless LGBT youth ...

Editor’s note: This is the ninth and final installment in our series examining the roots of America’s housing crisis. To read the earlier pieces, visit the Roots of Today’s Housing Crisis. Half a ...