homelessness

In Los Angeles, more than a thousand people sleep on the street in cardboard boxes and tents — just a mile away from City Hall. Many want to fix Skid Row, but how to do it is extremely controversial.

Miami-Dade County has strict limits on where sex offenders can live — so strict, many wind up living in outdoor encampments. Now the ACLU is challenging the law, which it says is harsh and arbitrary.

One Guilford County group is trying a different approach to help end homelessness and  area churches may play a unique role. 

 

 

Homelessness is the theme of a new piece of public art in downtown Winston-Salem. 

   

The state is implementing a controversial pilot program that offers some homeless people a way to leave Hawaii and reunite with family members in other states. A noteworthy critic of the plan is the department in charge of implementing it, which foresees a costly administrative burden.

An annual survey of the number of homeless people living in Guilford County has been
completed, and the results were announced this morning during a news conference held at the Interactive Resource Center in Greensboro.

Today in Guilford County, Partners Ending Homelessness is conducting Guilford County's annual "Point In Time" count.  It is, as the organization's Executive Director Darryl Kosciak po

Three years ago, a massive earthquake destroyed much of Haiti's capital city. Aid agencies from around the world pledged billions of dollars to help Haiti rebuild. But since then, many of the grand plans have fizzled, and some 350,000 Haitians still live in makeshift camps.