Human Services

A growing number of gender-nonconforming and transgender people are experiencing homelessness in the U.S., a trend that seems baffling because public polling indicates LGBTQ+ individuals are more socially accepted than…

Homelessness has surged across the United States in recent years, rising 19% from 2016 though 2023. The main cause is a severe shortage of affordable housing. Rising homelessness has renewed…

Homelessness in New Jersey is on the rise, with the state seeing a nearly 24 percent increase since last year, a new report says. Earlier this week, nonprofit Monarch 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…