Philadelphia's point-in-time count – a federally-mandated survey of homelessness in the city – happens each year in late January. On that night, volunteers fan out across the city to document how many ...

Data: City of Philadelphia and U.S. Housing and Urban Development; Chart: Axios Visuals As Philadelphia grapples with a lack of affordable housing and an ongoing opioid crisis, homelessness is ...

Philadelphia has thousands of homeless residents living in shelters and on the streets. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation U.S., CC BY-SA Seeing a person huddled under a makeshift roof of tarps or curled up ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philly House, Philadelphia’s longest-running homeless shelter of 146 years, is now ...

There is Something Poetic and Painful About Returning Home After Decades Away. *Philadelphia—my birthplace, my identity-maker, my forever hometown—always grabs me by the spirit the moment my feet hit ...

Philadelphia stands to lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended to fight homelessness under a plan issued by the Trump administration that advocates say could significantly disrupt ...

Visitors gather after a news conference in front of Project HOME’s Inn of Amazing Mercy in 2023. The supportive housing project stands to lose federal aid under a Trump administration plan.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA -- Police say a man who was evicted from a North Philadelphia homeless shelter returned Sunday morning with a gun, killing one employee and injuring another. The incident occurred ...

Hoping to keep a Philadelphia library’s bathrooms clean and free of loiterers, a nonprofit group is employing formerly homeless people as bathroom attendants, reports the Associated Press. The Free ...

Philly House, Philadelphia’s longest-running homeless shelter of 146 years, is now serving the homeless population from a mobile kitchen in the shelter’s parking lot. This change comes after an August ...