The Hope 220 Solution Center in the Spring Garden neighborhood is part of an effort to eliminate homelessness in Philadelphia.

More than 200 volunteers canvassed Philadelphia on Wednesday night for the federally mandated annual homeless census, known ...

11 years earlier, he had thought up the idea of the mobile laundromat while incarcerated, and felt that the time had come to give it a try.

Philadelphia’s new push to get to “a functional zero in homelessness” — meaning no one seeking shelter is turned away for lack of space — will depend in large part on creating enough new beds in ...

Philadelphia taxpayers have spent around $270,000 funding a scheme that buys one-way bus tickets for homeless people in an attempt to get them to leave the city. The Stranded Traveler Assistance ...

There is Something Poetic and Painful About Returning Home After Decades Away. *Philadelphia—my birthplace, my identity-maker, my forever hometown—always grabs me by the spirit the moment my feet hit ...

As political rhetoric and local policies increasingly criminalize homelessness, violence against homeless people continues ...

Hoping to keep a Philadelphia library’s bathrooms clean and free of loiterers, a nonprofit group is employing formerly homeless people as bathroom attendants, reports the Associated Press. The Free ...

This data allows the city to see a single-night snapshot of homelessness around Philadelphia. To find out which car insurer ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More than 200 volunteers canvassed Philadelphia on Wednesday night for the federally mandated annual homeless census, known as the Point in Time Count. The count includes all ...