On January 8, Evangeline Iglesias — a single mother of three — lost her family home of 25 years in the Eaton Fire. When she returned to the Altadena neighborhood to survey the damage, only her chimney ...

‍Nour El-Naboulsi is a Burlington, Vermont farmer — but he doesn’t tend to a field of crops or a clearing of cattle. As the executive director of Village Hydroponics, El-Naboulsi oversees the ...

At the very end of 2024, the first six residents of Salt Lake City’s Other Side Village moved into their new houses. “I feel awesome,” one resident, Paul Eric Fairburn, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “It ...

Before Pete Adler enlisted in the Army, he majored in architecture. Now, after spending 25 years in equipment maintenance and supply, and another 17 years as a civilian employee, Adler is back to his ...

‍Last spring, Lancaster, California, a city on the edge of the Mojave Desert, opened a vibrant — almost Barbie-style — housing campus for residents experiencing homelessness. The new community, named ...

The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico recently broke ground on a new tiny home neighborhood, or “micro-community,” in Bernalillo County. Named Recovery Gateway, the 46-mini-home community is designed to ...

As the cost of living spikes in tandem with homelessness rates across the country, various cities have begun exploring the idea of converting vacant spaces — like former shopping malls, defunct ...

Whether people are fleeing armed conflict or extreme weather, time is of the essence when it comes to setting up temporary shelters and getting people to safety. Simply put — when disaster strikes, ...

Picture yourself walking through your neighborhood. You pass a woman on the street, sitting beside a cardboard sign asking for spare change. She is a stranger experiencing homelessness, and you don’t ...

For four years, volunteer knitters, crocheters, and sewists have created handmade blankets for the annual Homeless Memorial Blanket Project. Their goal — outside of blanketing those experiencing ...

KATHMANDU — Scientists have for the first time in 185 years confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal, thrilling conservationists and researchers looking for clues to its ...

There is a sad reality behind the pomp and circumstance of Mardi Gras celebrations: for years, parade horses were brought into the city by horse brokers only to be sold to slaughter once the fanfare ...