The Big Easy can be hard. New Orleans has more than 1,300 homeless residents. They can tell you how it is.

Last Friday, a jogger was filmed destroying the encampment of a homeless man at Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA. The video showed the aftermath of the jogger throwing the man’s belongings into the lake in front of shocked onlookers. The video went viral, but the story just kept getting weirder.

Less than a month after passing a plan to raise taxes on large companies based in the city—in order to increase funding for services aimed at the city’s growing homeless population—the Seattle city government scuttled the tax, cowing to pressure from Amazon and Starbucks.

A video shows a jogger in Oakland destroying a homeless person’s encampment, throwing part of it into a lake, and just all around being a gigantic piece of shit.

Friday is the day everyone lets the bad tweets they’ve been holding back all week fly, so it makes sense New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush—who has returned to Twitter and a new job after a brief period away following accusations of sexual misconduct—decided to get in on the action.

On a recent spring evening, a group of mothers at D.C. General Family Homeless Shelter were enjoying the weather, chatting outside near the building’s entrance. Two young boys whizzed past on scooters, colorful lights flashing. Across the street on the playground, kids shrieked, playing catch and chasing each other…

It’s been six months since a massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, but many Mexico City residents who lost their homes after the disaster are still living in the streets.

During a speech awash in horrific oversimplifications in service of depicting America as the One Great Country, Donald Trump offered a particularly grim anecdote about the human cost of the opioid epidemic during Tuesday night’s State of the Union.

A group of activists announced on Monday that they plan to sue the Southern California city of El Cajon after they were arrested this weekend for providing food to a homeless community in a local park.

A Chicago-area man who committed the horrible crime of giving homeless people a warm place to sleep has been reportedly threatened with homelessness himself by city officials unless he closes his doors to those in need.

Just a few days after patting himself on the back for committing to housing all of America’s homeless veterans, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin reportedly told advocates and officials that the funding for the program which would carry out that mission was being reallocated.

For a Mickey Mouse theme park built on hopes and dreams, the sight of a growing number of homeless people sleeping on nearby bus stop benches was too much for City Hall.

Troop 6000 was created in a Queens homeless shelter, and now it’s expanding to shelters across New York City. The new Girl Scouts initiative will serve at least 500 girls and is receiving a $1 million investment from the mayor’s office.

Law enforcement officials in DeKalb County, GA, have reopened an investigation into an officer who was filmed repeatedly striking a homeless woman with a police baton.

MEXICO CITY—Mi Valedor might be mistaken for any other glossy magazine, with its eye-grabbing covers and catchy headlines. Inside, you’ll find photographs, drawings, short stories, articles, and poetry that describe the realities of Mexico City. But it isn’t Vice. Nor is it the notoriously hip local magazine Chilango. …

This week, an all-female team of high school students is traveling to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to present their newest invention: a solar-powered tent they invented to help shelter homeless people in their hometown.

The number of young people living on the streets of Los Angeles County has shot exponentially up since last year, according to new local figures.