Between 2022 and 2023, there was a 63% increase in the length of time people experienced homelessness in DeKalb County. A disproportionate number of those impacted are children and people of color.

Civil rights groups say new Georgia voting rules have made it too easy to challenge the eligibility of people living in nursing homes, college dormitories and military facilities, and will make it more difficult for homeless people to register to vote.

Extended-stay hotels are often a last resort for low-income families trying to avoid homelessness. But hotel living can lead to — or exacerbate — various physical and mental health issues for children, say advocates for families and researchers who study homelessness.

The founders of Under One Roof are raising millions of dollars to help the "acutely" homeless.

Working people living in motels are considered a "hidden homeless" population. An alliance of nonprofits are working to move 1,000 affected families in Atlanta to stable housing by next summer. 

Atlanta City Council has unanimously approved a measure to begin counting unhoused people in the summer every other year starting in 2025 to get better data. 

Officials in Atlanta and Denver believe that micro communities, unlike shelters, offer residents stability that, when combined with wraparound services, can more effectively put them on the path to secure housing.

It took almost two days for Albert Knight Jr.’s body to be discovered in a downtown Macon alley.

A group of nonprofits are working to help 1,000 families in the Atlanta metro area go from living in motels to stable, permanent housing by June of 2025.

Macon's Central City Apartments will offer below-market rate rents to service workers and safe space for medical recovery for the unhoused.

Counties must spend about two-thirds of the money from a tax enacted for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.

For four years, Fraisher Poole, a 66-year-old grandmother, has been living on the streets of the town where she grew up and raised her own family. For more than six months, she has been anxiously waiting for news that she can turn the keys and walk into a new home.

Thousands gather each year in Georgia and nationwide during the last 10 days of January to conduct the annual homelessness census that guides legislative, funding and support efforts. The Point-in-Time headcount is the most comprehensive census for sheltered and unsheltered individuals.

Macon, Warner Robins are the only Georgia metro areas without a Continuum of Care program for people experiencing homelessness.

Mayor Andre Dickens pledged to clear the encampments after numerous fires believed to have been set by unhoused people have damaged bridges and closed roadways in the city.