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A booming Montana city's struggle with homelessness is a warning — and a model — for the West
A surge in housing costs has made Missoula, Montana, increasingly unaffordable. But the city is cha…
Eliza Relman
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New Zealand charity distributes meth "candies" worth Rs 50k to homeless by mistake
Auckland’s City Mission accidentally distributed meth-laced candies in food parcels meant for the h…
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Montana's housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country
Older and retired Montanans are particularly hard hit by the state's severe housing crisis, as thei…
Eliza Relman
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the Supreme Court to make it easier to clear homeless encampments. Advocates say that will make the crisis worse.
The Supreme Court will review a Ninth Circuit ruling protecting unhoused people from being forced o…
Eliza Relman
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Younger baby boomers are facing a homelessness crisis as rents skyrocket and outpace Social Security
More baby boomers are facing homelessness as rent prices outpace Social Security payments. A subsid…
Cork Gaines
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A homeless advocate of 40 years says finding homes for unhoused New Yorkers with vouchers has never been so hard
Marc Greenberg, the executive director of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness & Housing, says h…
Eliza Relman
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A crisis comms expert says now is Gavin Newsom's chance to get what he wants: the presidency
Following Joe Biden's poor debate showing against Donald Trump, a crisis comms expert said that Gov…
Aditi Bharade,Lloyd Lee
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Irish millennials and Gen Zers are being hit hard by the housing crisis. Many more are moving back in with their parents.
Rents in Ireland jumped 84% between 2010 and 2022, far more than the EU average.
Eliza Relman
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An upcoming video game is so realistic it simulates a homelessness crisis, getting laid off, and Gen Z going broke
Mismanaging the virtual city could lead to a cascade of economic woes from families being unable to…
Kai Xiang Teo
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California Rep. Maxine Waters introduces bills to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fight homelessness and solve the affordable housing crisis
The bills would invest over $150 billion in affordable housing, send $100 billion to first-generati…
Eliza Relman
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As homelessness spikes nationwide, at least 4 major cities have found ways to get people off the streets
New York, Philadelphia Seattle and Chicago are increasing access to affordable housing and non-poli…
Allie Kelly,Eliza Relman
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See inside California's newest $1.7 million prefab tiny home village erected to help ease Santa Barbara's homelessness crisis
Image Courtesy of Alex Siegel, My Mosaic
Brittany Chang
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Brittany Chang
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Tiny homes are being built by churches and non-profits to help ease the homeless crisis
Tiny homes are becoming increasingly popular as a solution to help homeless people and come with a …
Jyoti Mann
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Democrats in California want to clear homeless encampments in public areas. So they convinced the conservative US Supreme Court to take up the case.
The issue has united liberals and conservatives as they've asked the SCOTUS to overturn the 9th Cir…
John L. Dorman
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California will spend $30 million to build 1,200 tiny homes to combat the state's homelessness crisis here's what they could look like
The Chandler Street Tiny Home Village in Los Angeles.Brittany Chang/Insider
Brittany Chang
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New York hides 'its poor, tired, homeless masses' ahead of UN session
City officials have cleared out homeless pavement dwellers from the area around the United Nations …
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How the candidates running for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat say they'll solve California's housing crisis
Housing affordability and homelessness are two of the top issues on California voters' minds. It co…
Eliza Relman
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Sen. Ron Wyden's new bill wants to tackle the housing crisis and wipe out homelessness along the way
The bill is meant to help low- and middle-income renters, and give a $15,000 refundable tax credit …
Juliana Kaplan
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As the homeless population booms due to sky-high rent prices, we need to think of the California homeless crisis as a refugee crisis
Becoming homeless is not the result of any individual's failings. The unhoused are refugees and vic…