Organizations helping homeless during cold snap
Candy Crecink keeps a box of tissues in her office at United Way of North Central Mississippi for those who arrive in desperate need with nowhere else to go.
A little help goes a long way
Two years ago, now 32-year-old Maria was living in a car with her three kids. When her car no longer worked, she dropped it at a repair shop, where the vehicle has sat ever since. She and her kids hopped from an aunt’s house to a cousin’s house to a cousin’s mom’s house to a friend’s.
America’s homeless population rises for first time in years
The nation’s homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.
Cities ready help homeless during cold
The first cold blast of weather arrived Thursday, which means Glenda Buckhalter was out of the office for most of the day, trying to find homeless people in the city to secure lodging for them in area hotels.
Cities passing more laws making homelessness a crime
Cities across the country are enacting more bans on living in vehicles, camping in public and panhandling, despite federal efforts to discourage such laws amid a shortage of affordable housing, a new report said.
Homeless students get more attention under new education law
School administrators this year are being pushed to get better at recognizing homeless students — those “hidden” in other people’s homes or whose families are staying in places like campgrounds, motels and cars — and to keep them in school even if they’re missing paperwork or move around.
Homeless population continues to decline
The U.S. appears to be winning the war on homelessness.
VA enters stretch on goals for homelessness, claims backlog
Six years ago, the Obama administration set the ambitious goal of ending veteran homelessness in 2015 and ending the backlog in disability claims.
Man on mission to build tiny houses for Los Angeles homeless
After Elvis Summers built a tiny house on wheels for a woman who had been sleeping on the streets, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to construct similar shelters for other homeless people in his South Los Angeles neighborhood.
Assistance organizations trying to better network
Columbus police in February found a man huddled in the back bedroom of his home, using a blanket and boiling water from a Crock Pot to keep warm.
Local homeless coalition continues push
The Golden Triangle Regional Homeless Coalition has reached a significant milestone in its mission to establish the area’s only homeless shelter.
Homeless people need libraries, and libraries need them, too
Jeffery Bailey spends nearly every day at his public library.
Lowndes Co. homeless population down in survey
A statewide tally of homeless Mississippians conducted last week shows that Lowndes County numbers are down.
Homeless Coalition making progress, Harris tells Exchange Club
Four months after a conversation that proved to be the genesis of the Golden Triangle Regional Homeless Coalition, organizers are beginning to see real progress.
Homeless count takes place this week in Miss.
A statewide census of the homeless population in Mississippi will be taken this week, including in the Golden Triangle.
Regional homeless coalition builds momentum
A group of local community leaders fighting homelessness in the Golden Triangle is picking up the pace.
Feeding the homeless: Charity or crime?
To Arnold Abbott, feeding the homeless in a public park in South Florida was an act of charity.
Suds, faith found at California laundromat
Over the long months that Victoria Mitchell lived in her car with her infant daughter, there was one bright spot in her life: doing laundry.
Classes for homeless focus on the basics
On the day before school started in Columbus, Glenda Buckhalter stood before a table stacked with book bags containing school supplies Wednesday and offered an apology.
“I’m sorry that I couldn’t get everything,” she told the group of a dozen women, all moms, and in one case, a grandmother.
Police probe other attacks after transients killed
Three teenagers accused of fatally beating two homeless men beyond recognition with cinder blocks, bricks and a metal fence pole may have been terrorizing transients around Albuquerque for months, police said Monday.