I hope you remember this recent post: "Catherine Died Sleeping Outside Last Night". Sadly, when you work with homeless people, death on the streets ...

Some homeless people are said to be "service resistant," but the real truth is, the current homeless services system fails people!

You might think it's funny that I thank a social media company for saving my life, but I genuinely believe that if it wasn't for Twitter, I'd be back on the streets -- or worse.

On any given night, nearly 633,782 people in the United States experience homelessness -- over 60,000 of them veterans.

The truth is, if nonprofits actually had the support needed to do Housing First right, and to QUICKLY move people from street to home, we could drastically reduce homelessness and save lots of taxpayer money!

Poverty and homelessness is far too big for any one organization, yet many faith-based orgs want to play "Lone Ranger" and do their own thing. Truth is, they just don't want to change. I find it very refreshing Los Angeles Mission (and others) are willing to change to help more people.

Homeless services is starting to adapt the use and sharing of data. HUD has now even mandated all service providers use HMIS (Homeless Management Information Systems) as a requirement to funding! That's all great, but to make data really work we need policy and cultural changes!

Providing a social enterprise for street homeless people takes a lot of trust on everyone's part. That trust alone my be better at restoring a life than the money these vending carts will generate.

Trying to describe Skid Row to someone who has never been there is like trying to explain light refraction to a frog. Skid Row really has to be experienced firsthand.

The number of homeless people in the U.S. remained steady last year, underscoring just how much work needs to be done to actually lower the number of ...

Each and every action taken by a connected network influences the outcome. Each person, each tweet and each retweet, each post on Google+ or Facebook is important. There is real power in a connected network!

I support the "Housing First" model, but so often chronic homeless individuals are placed into an apartment without adequate support.

When a person is homeless, they feel powerless. They don't have a choice of where to sleep, when to wake up, what to eat -- almost every choice is taken away. Here, they're asking politicians to act on their behalf.

Public feedings do very little to end homelessness. In fact -- in many ways - public feedings maintain homelessness.

For more than a year Tim Richter, incoming president & CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, has repeatedly told me I need to get over...

Nadia is an intelligent and attractive young woman with a real sense of fashion style. No one would even guess she once literally slept on the streets sleeping rough in London. Nadia, like most of us blogging about issues of homelessness, struggles on if she should continue.

At the Royal Opera House in London, England, homeless people were given an official platform at the celebrations of an Olympic Games for the first time in history.

One homeless California man is using a small device as a huge tool for advocacy: a flipcam. Mo has been homeless for over four years, living under ...

I've heard all kinds of stories about Gavin Newsom, but to me, any mayor that leads a community by washing the feet of our homeless friends is a hero.

Sober living homes are a crucial component to rehabilitating drug addicts and people getting out of prison. There is also a huge housing need for people who cannot qualify for SSI, yet for whatever reason are not employable.

Let's face it. The economy still sucks. Finding employment is far from easy, and finding employment that offers a living wage for a homeless mom to pa...

"I don't care who you worship or what you believe. I don't care who you sleep with. If you are helping hurting people, you're my friend and I will sup...

A little over three years ago Alan Graham "talked" me into visiting Austin, Texas because he knew what he was doing to help our homeless friends was s...

We've all been panhandled by a homeless person on street begging for money. I bet every one of you reading this has even been aggressively panhand...

On a past road trip, I connected with Indianapolis School on Wheels. The program provides educational help to homeless students in 10 shelters and 2 s...