Lawmakers in Los Angeles and San Francisco took the unusual step of asking California Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency to help the state's homeless. “Homelessness across the state has reached historic levels, and now is the time to act,” it says...

On Thursday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development released information that Los Angeles and the surrounding area are leading in the number of homeless people in the country. And almost all of them sleep outside. Since 2013, the number of homeless people in the city has grown by 55%, ...

Los Angeles officials say the growing problem of homelessness threatens public safety. It is planned to allocate one hundred million dollars to solve this problem. Currently, according to rough estimates, 26 thousand people live on the streets of the city. This is ten percent more than two years ...

The parliamentary commission on labor, social security and health discussed the situation with persons without permanent residence. The meeting took place on the initiative of Knesset member from the Meretz party Zahava Galyon. Zaava Galyon said that local authorities in the territory...

A former Marine, 51-year-old Donald Gould, lives on the streets of the American city of Sarasota. His street piano playing won the hearts of residents and caused a wide resonance in social networks. In support of the homeless pianist, they even began to collect money on the Internet. Public musical instruments placed ...

Launched in 1990, the Doe Fund has helped thousands of street-stricken New Yorkers get back to their normal lives, or at least make one. Most of them stayed on the streets due to their addiction to alcohol and drugs. The fate of these people, at first ...

All states of America are trying to fight homelessness to the best of their ability. Basically, local legislators choose a variety of prohibitive measures for this, in some cases, quite drastic. State parliamentarians forbid sleeping in cars or lying on the ground in public places. In general ...