The UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative recently completed a new study to better understand homelessness across the state of California.

The city is far and away the most unaffordable metropolitan area in the country.

Cities and community groups are wrestling with how to shelter a vulnerable population without exposing it to an airborne virus that spreads most easily indoors.

Two men who slept on downtown Los Angeles sidewalks were beaten to death with a bat last month.

California, the state with the nation's mightiest economy, is in the grip of a homelessness crisis that has so far outstripped the ability of state and local governments to cope with it. Whole person...

Subway cars should not be homes — or deathbeds.

The Atlantic published an article on a new strain of crystal meth said to be “worsening America’s homelessness problem.” Policy manager Ned Resnikoff examines how the piece showcases common misconc...

A growing number of people are becoming homeless late in life, say researchers who...

Wyoming fares best; Nevada the worst. No state has an adequate supply of homes for its poorest renters a new National Low Income Housing Coalition report finds.

As a California-based homelessness researcher and physician, I know we’re misdiagnosing the problem.

Life on the streets is even harder for those 50 and older. Here’s what our cities and...

The UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative recently completed a new study to better understand homelessness across the state of California.

In the U.S., health and wealth are often linked. As the coronavirus spreads, experts worry that low-income communities will be especially vulnerable — and ill-equipped to respond.

Getting evicted during COVID can risk a person's health and doom their ability to find a home. The extension this week of a federal order preventing evictions could save many people from that fate.

The city should not agree to a settlement to shelter most of its homeless population.

As the face of homelessness changes, politicians cling to limited policy ideas and quick fixes.

Despite more attention and money to reduce homelessness, the numbers in many U.S. cities keep going up. Experts say a key reason is the persistent lack of affordable housing.

Black people are dramatically overrepresented among those living on Los Angeles’s streets, where the bright future promised to earlier generations has been blunted by the bitter inheritance of racism.

When a digital health company announces a new app, everyone seems to think it’s going to improve health. Not me. Where I work, in San Francisco’s public

The Chronicle’s recent Homeless Project made me wonder how a city with few to no black...

San Francisco and Alameda counties have cut ties with Verily’s state-funded COVID testing sites amid concerns about data collection and privacy.

Perhaps nowhere else in America can the unequal toll of the virus be felt more dramatically. Suburban sprawl and freeways demarcate the neighborhoods of the haves and the have-nots.

Single-family zoning was born of Bay Area racism. End it for good.

Marc Eichenbaum and Michael Nichols write that a decade ago Houston had one of the largest homelessness populations in the US, but today the city has reduced the number of unhoused people by over 60%...

City health workers are handing out buprenorphine prescriptions to homeless people in hopes of getting them into treatment.

The health care provider has been working since January to get everyone in a more than 500-person program off the streets and into housing.

This cohort study aims to identify the prevalence and factors associated with mortality in a cohort of homeless adults 50 years and older.

Few problems are simultaneously so distressing and so addressable.

Thousands of people released from prison in New York go directly to homeless shelters.

There are huge disparities in coronavirus cases between low-income and wealthy communities. But public policies are based on metrics that conceal that reality.

We spent three months documenting the conditions of one homeless camp in the wealthiest state. Then we traveled to a slum in Mexico City for comparison.

Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an "open drug scene."

Prioritizing vaccines for people experiencing homelessness is vital to an equitable and effective public health response, write Margot Kushel, Barbara DiPietro, and Bobby Watts Ensuring effective...

The Los Angeles mayor's race is turning into a single-issue election: What to do about the city's enormous homeless population? It's not clear either candidate could solve the problem.

In their cohort study, Fine et al1 found that drug overdose mortality among adults experiencing homelessness in Boston increased substantially from 2004 to 2018, with a particularly rapid growth in...

In many cities and suburban areas nationwide, the tolerance by housed neighbors and business owners for homeless people remaining in place is over. Officials are implementing new camping bans,...