“Last year homelessness increased 116% in the state of Illinois,” Doug Kenshol, co-founder of the Illinois Shelter Alliance, ...

Faith Fowler is the executive director at Cass Community Social Services in Detroit. She wants to curb homelessness. “There’s not one solution, right….not even in one area,” Fowler told Our Quad ...

Veteran homelessness is not just a national issue, it is a local crisis. Peoria County should take an active role in fundraising for veteran support initiatives.

I read Josh VanderBerg’s recent column, “Everything Is Housing,” [Viewpoints, July 9] with great interest and considerable agreement. His sense of urgency is not misplaced. We are both deeply ...

As I reflect upon the way by which homelessness has now become normalized, I fear for what else is heading in this direction. Years ago, Hans Christian Andersen told a tale of an emperor who wore ...

Immigrant rights activists warned of a looming homeless crisis next year and urged Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council at a Thursday news conference to maintain funding for migrant and ...

Lee Friedman, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, is one of the authors of the “Illinois Homelessness Morbidity and Mortality Report.”He told the committee its analysis found ...

As rates of homelessness rise in the US, experts are calling for urgent reforms that recognize housing as a core component of health care. Each night, nearly 800,000 individuals are unhoused ...

Facing a tight budget year with constrained spending and limited natural revenue growth, the $55.1 billion fiscal year 2026 ...