Housing—and the lack of access to it—has long been recognized as a critical social determinant of health. The outstanding question for health care leaders is not whether health systems have a role to ...

The national dialogue on homelessness is painfully off-base in how it incorrectly places the blame for continued high levels of homelessness on agencies and coalitions, which are actually doing a good ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. 2024 was another relentless year of the housing crisis.

Tents at homeless camps are pictured in North Lawrence behind Johnny’s Tavern on Monday, March 11, 2024. A public dashboard now provides real-time data on homelessness in Douglas County to support the ...

This year’s Point-in=Time have not been formally released, but local officials say the data may show progress toward reducing ...

Every other January, hundreds of volunteers canvass the streets in Sacramento County to conduct the Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, the federally required census of unhoused people. What they observe is ...

Individual sign-ups are no longer accepted; only pre-formed teams of 3-4 volunteers may register. Each year, a cadre of volunteers branches out across Santa Monica collecting data about the local ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who has lived long in Kansas City — a city proud of its fountains, parks, first-rate sports teams and barbecue — could not ...