Welcome to “The Night of the Unsheltered Homeless,” the 7th full-length documentary in the My Road Leads Home series of documentaries on homelessness in Spokane. This 83-minute film explores the lack of available and appropriate shelter beds for roughly half of the known and counted homeless population.

Watch the first of our Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system. Emergency shelters play a critical role in ending homelessness. Effective shelters should embrace a Housing First approach, offer immediate and low-barrier access to anyone facing a housing crisis, and measure shelter performance in order to improve results.

Five people experiencing homelessness have died on the streets in Salt Lake City over the last five frigid days. So, the mayor is taking emergency action. She’s helping to add nearly 100 beds to the system.

Do homeless people need help? This article explores the 7 top reasons for why the government should provide shelter to the homeless.

There are more people sleeping on the streets in the Phoenix Valley than there are shelter beds available.

The mayor of Portland plans to ban camping on city streets and move unhoused people to designated campsites, as the growing homeless population has become the top concern for the vast majority of residents.

Tents, broken-down cars, piles of garbage and RVs line the streets off Southeast 80th and Powell in Portland, Oregon. It's a residential neighborhood turned nightmare for families who live there.

For those experiencing homelessness or who have mental health issues, transitional or supportive housing and homelessness shelters are a good place for you to stay. A person who is homeless is commonly suffering from poverty, unemployment, or a lack of affordable housing.

Do illegal homeless camps generate crime? It's a sensitive question, but one that's becoming politically urgent in cities where pandemic-era tolerance policies have allowed the camps to sprawl into more visible areas.

The homelessness crisis, especially in major West Coast metro areas grabs the headlines: tent cities lining freeways and spreading into busy entertainment districts. But every night an untold number of people are also sleeping outside in smaller inland cities.

#TinyHomeVillages are helping to lift people out of the streets into practical, safe, and secure transitional housing. Seattle is experiencing a staggering homelessness crisis. Innovative affordable housing and transitional shelter solutions are needed, and that's where the Low Income Housing Institute comes in. In partnership with the city and other nonprofits, especially Nickelsville, they create micro shelter villages for individuals and families experiencing #homelessness.

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. The reason: The country applies the “Housing First” concept. Those affected by homelessness receive a small apartment and counseling –without any preconditions. And: All this is cheaper than accepting homelessness.

Daniel Shockley says he’s been homeless, “About four months, this time.” Shockley had been living with his girlfriend near Modesto’s Fourth Street when a breakup left him with nowhere to go but the park.

If you live in a major American city, you've probably seen your fair share of homeless camps. They usually crop up in empty lots, parks, and Big Rock Candy Mountains. City governments generally have them torn down and cleaned up whenever they can. Leaving aside whether or not that's the right way to address homelessness, somebody has to do the work of cleaning those places up. Our source, Carol, did just that. She told us how ...

It is clear there are significant geographic differences in the progress toward ending homelessness that we’re seeing in communities. While some communities are documenting significant reductions in their annual Point-in-Time counts, other communities are faced with increasing numbers of people living unsheltered.

Brad Gibson had been homeless for years, going from low paying jobs to no job at all, when he connected with a group of highly organized homeless activists in Portland, OR. The group had banded together to demand the right to exist somewhere, in spite of a totally monetized, expensive consumer society that seems to chew up and spit out those who can’t make enough money to "exist".

This guide addresses homeless encampments, also known as transient camps. It begins by describing the problem and reviewing factors that contribute to it. It then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice.

Welcome to the most talked about neighborhood in Austin, Texas! Community First! Village is a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.