There are more than a half million homeless people in the United States; more than half of them sleep unsheltered each night, while the other half use emergency shelters and transitional housing.

The Justice Department's opinion challenges civil rights protections that have long treated the institutionalization of disabled Americans as a last resort.

Administration moves special education programs to health department and lowers barrier to institutionalization ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court homelessness ruling has agreed to ensure camping spaces for at least 150 people as part of a settlement reached with a ...

Eleven years ago in North Dakota, Shawn Strobl had an accident that would change his life. While working in an oil field there, he ruptured a disc in his neck, causing excruciating nerve pain and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Wednesday to Thursday evening, staff and volunteers for the Homeless Alliance of Western New York checked abandoned buildings ...

A lawsuit brought by disabled homeless people in Berkeley has ignited infighting between the city and its shelters over ...

A new national report has exposed for the first time how people with a disability or experiencing ill health are significantly more likely to find themselves homeless. The report, written by ...

A new state law is billed by advocates as "a historic step forward in disability rights for Vermonters experiencing homelessness," although a reduction in the motel voucher program ...