Homelessness

A national survey of college students found 36 percent struggle to find enough to eat or have a safe place to live.

Mayor Jim Kenney’s budget proposal includes an additional $2 million to fund programs for homeless people struggling with opioid addiction.

A combination of factors explains the decline, with a shift toward rapid-rehousing programs perhaps playing the biggest role, according to experts.

Malik Boyd was homeless, living in New York’s Penn Station, and it was all his fault. And to hear him tell the story 21 years later, it was the best thing that ever happened.

The facility, formerly a transit police headquarters, covers 11,000 square feet - 10 times the size of the current Hub of Hope, which has been operating in a storefront.

This year, the city paid some volunteers to help with the count — those who have experience with substance abuse issues, mental health diagnoses or homelessness.

The city promised in December it would open 30 more beds in the neighborhood by January, but city officials now estimate the space won’t open until late spring.

After two weeks in deep freeze, Philadelphia ends its Code Blue declaration and extra push to get homeless into shelters.

Through Monday morning, the warming center at Cione Recreation will be open 24 hours a day —.and no ID is necessary to come inside.

Even in bitterly cold weather, homeless people with addictions are often hesitant to take shelter if it means going to another part of the city and going through withdrawal.

Frigid temperatures in Philadelphia can’t keep the Mummers from their annual New Years strut. Meanwhile, outreach workers try to fi ...

Ten years ago, I started anonymously giving envelopes with handwritten Christmas cards and cash to people who are homeless in Philadelphia.

Hundreds gathered at a candlelight vigil Thursday night to remember more than 250 homeless people who died this year.

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The volunteers started on a corner near the railroad tracks where the city and Conrail cleared out an encampment of homeless heroin users this summer.