Michele Lauck, known as the “Mom” of tent city, describes the tragedy after meeting with the victim's family on Monday.

A homeless man’s two separate worlds came together in wake of his tragic death after a Jan. 16 tent fire at his Harrisburg ...

A 49-year-old homeless man died earlier this month after a homeless camp was being cleared by the city of Atlanta. Witnesses ...

Forty-one residents of Elgin’s “Tent City” homeless encampment were relocated to a hotel this week as work to clean the property began. Three recent fires at the roughly 8-acre site along ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- A so-called tent city in Elgin is being cleared out on Tuesday. The Elgin City Council approved a $2.5 million contract to remove the eight-acre site along the Fox River.

Homelessness rose last year by 18 percent, but much of the increase took place in a handful of states that had received lots of immigrants. Some experts say their increase during a HUD census inflated ...

It has left mental illness and the homeless population intertwined to a near-inseparable degree. Speak with a given number of homeless people, and it will be plain that most have some sort of ...

Ald. Samantha Nugent says the city will begin moving unhoused people from the park into shelters during the last week in February.

Even in the dead of winter, sleeping outdoors is a way of life for many homeless people. Tent cities like the one near the Route 19 ramp downtown point to a dramatic increase in the number of ...

THAT FIRE HAPPENED LAST THURSDAY ON SOUTH FRONT STREET UNDER INTERSTATE 83, IN HARRISBURG, WITH OFFICIALS CONFIRMING THAT A TENT CAUGHT FIRE. A CITY SPOKESPERSON DID NOT RELEASE T A homeless man ...