Homelessness and Housing

Homelessness is a major problem in the U.S., and it’s getting worse: A record 650,000 Americans were homeless on a single night in January 2023, according to the most recent point-in-time…

The number of young people experiencing homelessness in Travis County, which includes most of Austin, has risen substantially in the past four years, according to numbers from a nonprofit that…

Civil rights groups say new Georgia voting rules have made it too easy to challenge the eligibility of people living in nursing homes, college dormitories, and military facilities, and will…

“I can find someone else who would pay twice this much in rent.” These were the words my landlord threw at me before refusing to renew the lease on my…

When Dakota Becker was figuring out where to live in his hometown of Hillsboro, he quickly realized renting would put his long-term goal of buying a house farther out of…

A little over two weeks after Hurricane Helene turned living rooms into murky, debris-filled pools, washed away homes, and caused upward of $50 billion in damage, dozens of renters and…

As the sun rose Tuesday, Robert Robinson pulled himself from the sidewalk outside Fort Lauderdale’s bus depot. It’s where he’d slept — and become a violator of a new Florida…

Laws limiting the fees that landlords can charge prospective tenants, also known as junk fees, are growing nationwide. New research from the National Low Income Housing Coalition suggests that the laws…

In June, the Supreme Court made the decision to overturn the legal precedent known as Chevron deference. The Chevron deference reversal marks a significant shift in administrative law with broad…

Brittany Powell moved from the Bay Area to Vermont in 2016, just as wildfire smoke was becoming a regular summertime occurrence in California. She watched in horror from afar as…

Floridians and residents along the Southeast region of the United States are left shaken in the aftermath of not one but two major hurricanes that wreaked havoc over two weeks, causing widespread…

As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of…