Homelessness

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. 

HUD statistics show Pennsylvania, Delaware and particularly New Jersey are making headway in getting the homeless into permanent housing.

Using homelessness as a barometer, a Villanova criminologist looked at the experiences of more than 10,000 state inmates for nearly a decade after they were released.

This time of year, many of us make an extra effort to reach out to those in need. Less obvious are the needs of homeless children in our schools.

Now, the homeless man who helped a New Jersey woman when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia might not stay homeless much longer.

There’s a very practical benefit to giving homeless people a haircut: it could potentially help them resolve their situation.

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Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

Ken Hammon’s driveway says it all. About halfway down Tuckahoe Road in South Camden, sits the black Mustang the 31-year-old boug ...

Mental Health Partnerships provides services to homeless people, particularly those struggling with mental illness. Philly condo owners raise funds to extend that work.

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Homelessness is perhaps a bigger problem among our nation’s youth than you may have imagined. And they are right here in our backyard.

There are still hundreds of homeless people in Philadelphia, but the city is celebrating finding housing for 300 in the past year.