LIVESTREAM: Congressional Hearing on Housing Protections for Transgender People The National Center for Transgender Equality will testify before the House Committee on Financial Services about the growing housing crisis. Ayana Byrd Oct 29, 2019 10:00AM EDT
HUD Rule Allows Homeless Shelters to Deny Admission to Transgender People Young transgender people of color, especially Black youth, experience disproportionately high rates of homelessness. catherine lizette gonzalez May 23, 2019 5:12PM EDT
WATCH: This Queer Barber Gives Free Cuts to Homeless Youth in L.A. Out of a Trailer Madin Lopez, a formerly homeless queer barber, drives around Los Angeles providing over 700 haircuts to homeless youth each year. Miriam Zoila Pérez Jun 2, 2017 9:16AM EDT
Read MarShawn McCarrel II's Beautiful Poem, 'Down South' The #BlackLivesMatter activist committed suicide on Monday in front of the Ohio Statehouse. Here, some of his poignant words. Sameer Rao Feb 10, 2016 12:15PM EST
Seattle Declares State of Emergency to Address Homelessness Crisis While people of color represent 33.7 percent of Seattle’s population, they represent 72 percent of all familes seeking emergency shelter. Kenrya Rankin Nov 3, 2015 4:48PM EST
Houston Cut Its Homeless Population Nearly In Half Houston coalition uses collaborative model to cut homelessnes by 46 percent over four years. Kenrya Rankin Jun 12, 2015 1:12PM EDT
Record Number of New York City Children Face Homelessness And black and Latino children are disproportionately affected. Julianne Hing Mar 20, 2015 4:41PM EDT
New Study Debunks Myths of NYC's LGBT Youth Who Trade Sex For Survival It’s the first in a series of reports that take an in-depth look at who’s living on New York City’s streets and how they’re surviving. Jamilah King Feb 27, 2015 10:25AM EST
'Lucky' Gives a Rare Glimpse Into the Life of a Homeless Mom A new documentary by first-time filmmaker Laura Checkoway gives a gritty and provactive portrait of one woman’s survival story. Von Diaz Dec 2, 2013 7:00AM EST
Web Series 'The Peculiar Kind' Tackles LGBT Homeless Youth Current and formerly homeless LGBT folks and advocates talk about solutions and care. Jamilah King Nov 25, 2013 2:46PM EST
Homeless Youth in Focus Newly released studies indicate the number of homeless youth nationwide is rising. Von Diaz Nov 11, 2013 7:00AM EST
Shady Businessman Exploits Homeless to Wait in Line for iPhones But the man refused to hold up his end of the bargain. Jamilah King Sep 23, 2013 9:51AM EDT
Boston Man Who Returned $42,000 is Generously Rewarded Glen James returned a backpack filled with money earlier this week, and has since received over $130,000 in donations (and counting)! Von Diaz Sep 20, 2013 12:25PM EDT
Campaign Uses Homeless Katrina Survivor as Wi-Fi Hotspot at SXSW Meet Clarence. He’s homeless and selling wi-fi outside of the bigguest internet innovation conference but doesn’t have access to the internet himself. Jorge Rivas Mar 12, 2012 3:30PM EDT
Report Finds Black Families Greatly Overrepresented Among U.S. Homeless In 2010, one out of every 141 black family members stayed in a homeless shelter, a rate seven times higher than members of white families. Jorge Rivas Mar 2, 2012 5:22PM EST
Homelessness on the Rise for Female Veterans, African-Americans Hit Hardest Last month the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that found the number of women veterans that are homeless has grown substantially and the majority are black women. Jorge Rivas Jan 24, 2012 2:55PM EST
Homeless Ohio Man with Golden Radio Voice Gets a Job and Housing Ted Williams, homeless Ohio man with the “golden radio voice,” hired by NBA Team. Jorge Rivas Jan 5, 2011 2:50PM EST
Katrina Survivors in Alabama are STILL Waiting for Help In one poor town, they’re scraping together volunteer labor and donated materials to get out of tent cities. Julianne Hing Oct 20, 2010 12:05PM EDT
