The biggest challenge for these college students may not be exams or papers, but finding the means to survive. While the University of California system has worked to bring in more first-generation and "non-traditional" students, helping...

As a young child, Tania Luna left her home in post-Chernobyl Ukraine to take asylum in the US. And one day, on the floor of the New York homeless shelter where she and her family lived, she found a penny. She has never again felt so...

Russell Makofsky, The Gift of Chess, tells the incredible story of Tanitoluwa Adewumi ("Tani"), a 7-year old refugee from Nigeria living in a homeless shelter in New York City who went from chess novice to chess champion in just over 1...

The Ricochet Centre in Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough is operating at full capacity. It says expanding services and purchasing the property it’s been operating out of since last summer would help. But it says its acquisition...

When you think of services like emergency shelters, day centres and short-term housing for people experiencing homelessness, they’re usually located in the downtown area. But the need for resources is growing outside central neighbourhoods.

Four men talk about being homeless in one of Canada's richest cities.

The Stream: Can coronavirus be defeated without addressing homelessness?

Not long ago, 14-year-old Jorge Gomes was homeless and abandoned, CBC's Kim Brunhuber reports

Marlene Bird was beaten, assaulted and set on fire six months ago. Duncan McCue shares her heart wrenching story of struggle and survival.

The proposed 32-room shelter will house 150 single men, but elected officials and residents are still fighting to move the shelter elsewhere.

Detectives say officers were called to 237 Landing Road just after 3 p.m.

Peguis First Nation declared a state of emergency Tuesday over a housing shortage that has prevented hundreds of people forced out during a series of floods from returning to the Cree and Ojibway community in Manitoba's Interlake.

Both the shelter and the day care are on the property of Our Lady of Grace Church on Albin Avenue.

The proposal to build a homeless shelter in Bensonhurst on 86th Street and 25th Ave has sparked widespread concern among residents in the neighborhood.

Neighbors say they had no warning that construction in the area would be starting any time soon.

A women's shelter in Halifax is having to enforce a two-month stay policy because they don't have enough space, but women staying at the shelter say they have nowhere else to go. Advocates say the lack of affordable housing is putting...

The abrupt closure of the only homeless shelter in The Pas, Man., with no backup plan in place, has pushed about 30 people out onto the streets until the building is repaired.

A resident and the executive director of a Toronto homeless shelter speak after a COVID-19 outbreak led to two deaths and forced the shelter to temporarily close.

The project preserves some of the landmark building’s original architecture, including columns from the old nurses’ residence that will now serve as the building’s dining hall.

The project preserves some of the landmark building’s original architecture, including columns from the old nurses’ residence that will now serve as the building’s dining hall.

Dimple Willabus is challenging incumbent Council Member Mercedes Narcisse.

Just 20 minutes into public comments, the meeting got so heated that even the mayor was heard calling a council member a “clown.” The board moved to have a recess.

On Main Street in Corner Brook, Mayor Jim Parsons says more people are begging for change, and there’s more petty crime. He says the issue is the location of an emergency shelter in the old Hotel Corner Brook. But advocates and residents...

The lengthy meeting featured a jam-packed meeting room and comments from residents, members of the homeless community, churchgoers and attorneys.