Almost a year after it formed, a major homeless encampment in St. Paul has remained relatively clean and calm, with dumpsters to keep trash in check, portable toilets for residents and frequent visits ...

WASHINGTON – After T’Roya Jackson discovered the paint in her apartment gave her daughter lead poisoning, she and her children moved out. They couch-surfed for a while before moving into a homeless ...

A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s plan to divert billions of dollars in homelessness spending away from permanent housing, a decision that California officials and homeless ...

WASHINGTON — Every night, Abdullah Ibrahim retreats from the streets into a wooded stretch along the Potomac River. As night falls and temperatures drop, he erects a tent and builds a fire beneath a ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has been focused on the issue of housing and, by extension, those without homes. “Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are just one rent hike, one medical emergency, one ...

Last week Mayor Adams and conservative media told New Yorkers to start panicking about Zohran Mamdani’s plan to end homeless sweeps. Really, we should be relieved. After decades of failed homeless ...

Marcia Kramer joined CBS News New York in 1990 as an investigative and political reporter. Prior to CBS2, she was the City Hall bureau chief at the New York Daily News. Adams ordered the crackdown in ...

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met with the public during a hot chocolate giveaway event before speaking with the media in attendance on December 4, 2025 in ...

Homeless encampments will no longer be targeted by City Hall when Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor next month. But Mayor Eric Adams thinks it's a mistake — cutting a video on social media ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In a big shift from the previous administration, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Friday that he will not focus on breaking up homeless encampments and will instead center his ...

Mamdani on Thursday offhandedly rejected the city's longstanding policy of clearing makeshift settlements out of public areas. Paul Martinka Make no mistake: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s vow to not ...

Nearly 9,000 homeless people are now living in Sacramento County, according to new data from a local nonprofit. That data point, which is for September, is 50% higher than it was in June, and also ...