Families in many city homeless shelters need a doctor’s note to have air-conditioners. But some residents say shelters still make…
Shelter
In this audio essay, the sociologist Matthew Desmond interviews a resident of the Water Street Mission shelter in Lancaster, Pa.,…
A legal agreement scales back the longstanding requirement that the city provide shelter to homeless people who seek it. Families…
Several families, including that of the man who recorded a video of officers using a stun gun on a migrant…
A program designed to resettle 1,250 families across New York State has moved only about 170 households, barely easing the…
I once visited a domestic violence shelter in New England. It was a small, nondescript Cape Cod-style house, jammed between…
New York City evacuated on Tuesday about 500 families with children — nearly 2,000 people in total — from a…
City officials manipulated public data for years and delayed reporting that homeless families had stayed overnight at an intake center…
The South asked nearby islanders to seek shelter before it launched a military exercise in the disputed waters and chided…
New York officials have escaped scrutiny for repeated failures to help homeless mentally ill people, a New York Times investigation…