A growing hospital movement aims to improve health outcomes of homeless patients with what might be considered the ultimate preventive care: providing them with a home.
In the hope of stemming deaths from exposure to extreme temperatures, cities across Georgia either set up or expanded warming shelters heading into the record setting holiday cold snap. But now as the weather heats up again, the human toll of the cold is still unclear.
Temperatures will drop into the mid teens Thursday night and stay below freezing that way through the weekend. In order to help those without adequate housing, state and local officials are opening warming centers.
Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that officials will begin hospitalizing more homeless people by involuntarily providing care to those deemed to be in "psychiatric crisis."
ATLANTA – A Georgia Senate committee focused on addressing homelessness heard Wednesday from a variety of Georgians who have directly experienced living on the streets.
Bullhead City, Ariz., says Norma Thornton, 78, violated a city ordinance that prohibits people from giving out cooked food in public parks without a permit.
After years of steady declines, levels of homelessness in the U.S. began rising again during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proven strategies are being used to reduce homelessness, even if they are facing new challenges.
As the unhoused become more a part of our daily lives, some communities are taking action. Sometimes it means simply pushing the unhoused out of the way. Increasingly it can mean creating, and sticking to, a plan.
Officials in Macon-Bibb County took action against the city’s growing population of unhoused people with the bulldozing of a downtown encampment Wednesday.
A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: We sat down with three Georgia mayors discuss governance in their towns. Then, we dug into more election news as Trump endorses another Georgia candidate. We also reviewed Day 2 of hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: Leaders on both sides of the aisle are working to relieve pain at the pump. Gov. Brian Kemp and Sen. Raphael Warnock want to halt gas taxes as prices climb. Plus, Abrams sticks to her 2018 messaging after qualifying. Also: More updates from under the Gold Dome.
A bill in the Georgia Senate would ban local governments from using federal dollars to build permanent housing for homeless individuals and further financially penalize cities that have a higher-than-average homeless population. It would also make it a misdemeanor to take shelter on state property.
