homelessness

Homelessness is at the top of the agenda for candidates in mayoral races across the U.S. West. But they differ on whether it’s OK to clear encampments that have spread as the crisis has deepened and how much to rely on temporary housing.

The nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul of Dallas is on a mission to address several issues. That includes poverty, homeless, and running a charitable pharmacy. As we get closer to the end of summer and school starting soon we learn more about their study time program in this NBC 5 Community Conversation with vince sims.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that city laws which punish homeless people who sleep outside are constitutional and do not violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

In downtown Atlanta, shipping containers have been transformed into an oasis for dozens of previously unsheltered people who now proudly call a former parking lot home. It’s just one example of micro communities that have been popping up across the U.S. In Denver, 1,500 people have been moved indoors through that city’s own micro community program.

Join the Dallas 24 Hour Club in celebrating 55 years of hope and healing at their upcoming birthday bash.

Find out how The Human Impact is helping people get out of chronic homelessness.

Learn how Jaxon Turner is making a difference with his charity, Never Too Young To Care.

Immerse yourself in luxurious scents while giving back to a great cause with Austin Street Home.

The partnership with a nonprofit would offer permanent housing and counseling services to people facing homelessness for extended periods of time, or suffering severe mental illness.

Interfaith Family Services hosted its inaugural business pitch competition in honor of Black History Month called Past Meets Present.

The business pitch competition took place in honor of Black History Month. 

Help The Stewpot continue to support at-risk individuals at their annual, Soup’s On, luncheon.

NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen tells us about how organizations will soon have a clearer picture of the homelessness crisis in North Texas and across the nation.

Organizations will soon have a clearer picture of the homelessness crisis in North Texas and across the nation.

A special Dallas City Council Housing Committee will focus solely on the issue of homelessness on Thursday evening.housin

It’s not uncommon in to see North Texans facing homelessness asking for help in public places. But NBC 5’s Vince Sims reports residents in a Dallas neighborhood near Forest and Central Expressway say the city needs to do something about a nearby homeless encampment

In their North Dallas neighborhood is a homeless encampment. At nearby Forest Lane and I-75 there are others facing homelessness in an area where a lot of panhandling happens.

About 653,000 people were homeless, the most since the country began using the yearly point-in-time survey in 2007.

The Dallas City Council Wednesday put brakes on a controversial plan for homeless housing at a former hospital building on South Hampton Road.

On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council put the brakes on a controversial plan for homeless housing at a vacant hospital—homes, a library, and a school surrounding South Hampton Road. And the county commissioner is vehemently opposed. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports money saved there could complete another long-delayed housing plan.