NEW YORK -- Ronald Miller has a plan. Miller, 56, hasn’t had a reliable place to sleep in eight years. Yet with a nor'easter that the storm enth...

Every now and then, a story surfaces that could only happen in New York City. On a very cold night, New York City police officer Lawrence DePrimo was on patrol in Times Square and came across a homeless man who was barefoot, sitting on the ground...

New York City's poverty rate rose for the third straight year, with nearly 74,000 more people falling below the poverty line in 2011, according to a n...

City records show the number of homeless children living in New York City shelters rose to a staggering 19,000 last week, The Daily News reports. ...

Homelessness in New York City is the highest it's been since the Great Depression. This is simply unacceptable in the wealthiest city in the world, and we can and must do better.

New York still has an inexcusably large homeless population who seek shelter every night. The growing unemployment rate leads me to believe that homelessness is just better concealed these days.

In a move that combines the mayor's affinity for overbearing health regulations with his controversial stance on homeless shelters already under fire ...

NEW YORK — The city cannot go forward with a new policy requiring single people to prove they have no other options before they enter homeless s...

As a tide of poverty rises throughout the country, the Bronx stands out as a place where the waters have climbed especially high. So it's no great sur...

City officials have decided to postpone the start of a controversial policy that seeks to interview people seeking homeless shelters in order to deter...

NEW YORK — A homeless Good Samaritan who was ignored while lying, mortally wounded, on a New York City sidewalk will be honored at a wake. The ...

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - New York City plans to charge the working homeless for living in shelters starting next fall. At the same time, it want...

Mayor Bloomberg's responsible for this crisis. Since Bloomberg cut homeless families off from Section 8 vouchers and public housing priority, more families, not less, poured into the shelter system.

She's got no job, no apartment, no husband - but Herminia Rojas is making sure her kids have something: a decent education. The 41-year-old newly hom...