Its success reflects a combination of consistent public investment and cultural seriousness about the obligation to care for people.
Inexpensive single-room-occupancy dwellings were common in America decades ago, but overregulation has driven them from the housing market.
About 40 percent of participants in the city’s Inside Safe initiative have fallen back into unsheltered homelessness.
With promising early results, prevention programs are expanding nationwide as a potentially more effective and cheaper model.
Girmay Zahilay is the first new executive of King County, Wash., in 16 years. His restructure of the executive office sprouted rumors he "fired everyone" — but Zahilay says he's just organizing his office around his campaign promises.
Deaths dropped 10 percent but the mortality rate remains far higher than for the general population.
Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless population by 45 percent, even as the total number of homeless people in Denver has increased.
Ranking near dead last among major cities, the city is launching a public-private Housing Gateway program aimed at coordinating services and moving people into housing faster.
New eviction data underscores the state’s housing crisis, as a school board member’s case shows how quickly tenants can be displaced amid scarce affordable housing.
Sixty-five people from a long-standing encampment have been placed in stable housing, and outreach efforts are expanding under a structured rapid-rehousing strategy.
A century of increasingly restrictive zoning has priced out lower-cost housing, and new limits on how homes are used risk deepening the affordability crisis.
With federal support diminishing, local governments are on the forefront. They have plenty of effective approaches to draw on to direct resources toward proven ideas — and away from ineffective ones.
The Trump administration is shifting billions in federal aid away from permanent housing and toward treatment, enforcement and work requirements.
Federal policy changes stand to make it harder for local governments to cope with housing instability and homelessness. There are some things they can do to brace for what’s coming.
The shelters offer a stable alternative for unhoused families, which officials say reduces trauma for children and costs less than traditional foster placement.
Mayor Andre Dickens says the rapid-housing effort transforms underused watershed land into stability for vulnerable residents.
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