James Farrell is a director of the Council to Homeless Persons, the Victorian peak agency for specialist homelessness services. According to the best estimates at the time, almost 105,000 Australians ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - When it comes to poverty, there are a lot of definitions. Well, the answer is - it depends on who you're asking - especially if it's the federal government. Different agencies ...

STAUNTON — A final ruling on what defines homelessness by the federal agency that helps people through emergency, transitional and permanent housing is changing the way some agencies can count the ...

The discussion and debate about homelessness amongst the general public and policy makers has become superficial and reductionist at best and at worst dehumanizes people who are suffering from the ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — When her bill for overdue rent topped five digits, Resly Suka decided it was time to tell her kids they might lose their home. A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a ...

There are over 23 million children in the United States. In 2019-2020, roughly 1.3 million of them were considered homeless by the U.S. Department of Education. That’s roughly one child per classroom ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last month finalized the federal definition of homelessness. The new definition reflects changing times. Now households that have more than one ...

BRISTOL, Va. - Homelessness has always been a problem but the definition of a homeless school kid has now changed to include multiple families under one roof and families moving in with other family ...

Federal rules force many families to sleep in cars, shelters and on the street before they can get housing assistance, but an unusual Washington State program takes a different approach Students at ...

Nearly 8,000 students in Mississippi's public schools during one academic year were classified as homeless under a federal ...

Will updating the definition of “chronic homelessness” shift the dial on alleviating homelessness? That is the objective of a bipartisan group of lawmakers behind recent legislation that seeks to ...

About 85% of K-12 students identified as homeless nationwide don't qualify for public housing assistance. Advocates say dueling federal definitions of homelessness push kids and families into their ...