homelessness

If you have spent any time looking for an apartment or house to rent, you have noticed prices in North Texas are on the rise.

Traditional homeless shelters have usually been off-limits to pets. Here is how one interim housing site is helping keep owners and pets together and a look at how the state of California is trying to tackle homelessness by helping pets get off the street too.

Migrants are being sent from Texas to NYC with paperwork theoretically directing them to shelters – but in many cases the addresses are wrong and aren’t shelters at all, but offices or non-family facilities.

The significant rise in the cost of living in Dallas has struggling renters facing the possibility of homelessness.

A wave of renovation to take advantage of soaring Dallas rent is pushing some low-income tenants toward homelessness.

Selected photographs from Don “Tortellini” Thomas II’s “Faces of Dallas” and “The Village” are on view at the Dallas Arboretum through July 24.

Austin Street Center is changing lives and restoring hope to those experiencing homelessness. We sit down with their CEO, Daniel Roby, to learn more. MORE: AustinStreet.org

The Austin Street Center in Dallas is gearing up for its seventh annual No Place Like Home fundraiser in Klyde Warren Park Thursday night.

“We’re seeing a huge boom in senior homelessness,” said Kendra Hendry, a caseworker at Arizona’s largest shelter, where older people make up about 30% of those staying there

A double-size Austin Street Center is soon to open in Dallas as part of expanding the puzzle of services and facilities for homeless people.

A double-size Austin Street Center is soon to open in Dallas as part of expanding the puzzle of services and facilities for homeless people.

Prosecutors say a man suspected of shooting five homeless people in Washington and New York City and killing two of them appeared to hold up a phone and play music after he shot one of the victims.

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, recently banned camping on the sides of certain roadways, and officials are exploring other aggressive options to combat homelessness

Daniel Roby, CEO of Austin Street Center in Dallas, discusses how the pandemic has caused so much economic strife, especially for a vulnerable population, the homeless, and how they are working every day to serve our homeless neighbors. For more information on Austin Street Center, please visit AustinStreet.org/donate.

One in three North Texas families struggle to afford basic necessities for their children. Hope Supply Co. meets the needs of these at-risk families by providing diapers, formula, toys and more to enrich the lives of those affected by homelessness. Hope Supply Co. CEO, Barbara Jordan, has ways you can help support their cause. MORE: HopeSupplyCo.org

As a child, East Side Riders Bike Club co-founder John Jones III was told there were lines he couldn’t cross in the neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles. Today, he and his organization — co-founded by his father — regularly cross those gang lines by bicycle to deliver meals to anyone struggling with homelessness or food insecurity.

A Fort Worth man who got a second chance at life is helping give some who have experienced homelessness a chance to turn their lives around and get back on their feet. NBC 5’s Noelle Walker explains how.

A Fort Worth man who got a second chance at life is helping give some who have experienced homelessness a chance to turn their lives around and get back on their feet.

The Covid pandemic caused a surge in housing costs and a rise in unemployment, leaving nearly 600,000 Americans unhoused in 2020.

A deluge of applications has forced some states to shut their federal rental assistance programs earlier than expected.