In a remarkable example of applied innovation, students at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an ingenious solution to ...

IF YOU'RE LOOKING to elevate your outdoor gear stockpile, let's make the argument for the versatile portable hammock ... First off, we love the spacious design coming in at a whopping 10' L ...

Twenty-five thousand dollars a person could build a homeless shelter in two minutes,” she ... The city even installed a portable toilet on the patio next to the building during the encampment ...

Men's quarters on the first floor of the Next Door Shelter on Polk St. on Aug. 20. 2024. Photo by Abigail Van Neely. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you ...

The new trailer is to provide winter coats, sleeping bags, snow boots, toothpaste, deodorant and other necessities each month ...

Tamar Alboyd never anticipated a homeless shelter would evict her ... Those who overstay will be removed by the police, it says. The portable bathrooms will be removed days before the deadline ...

Pittsburgh city leaders are considering legislation that one city councilperson says would allow the city to turn a building ...

For approval, the county must prove there are not enough beds in homeless shelters to keep up with the local homeless population and that the camp would not hurt the property value or safety and ...

During the past five years, requests for interpretation by phone that were answered by the city’s Language Line or with an on-site interpreter increased more than five-fold in the Department of ...

Rebecca Fischer said she had never lived in a homeless shelter before this year, when she and her young son entered the Suffolk County Department of Social Services system. Fischer, who's ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening legal action against the city of Norwalk unless it reverses a ban on homeless shelters and other housing. “It is unfathomable that as our state grapples with a ...

779 of the 1,071 homeless people surveyed in Brevard County were without shelter. That meant 292 were "lucky" enough to be in transitional housing, in shelters or they were staying in safe havens.