A food truck run by the nonprofit Feed My Poor distributes meals at locations across LA each day at noontime. It distributes some 300 hot meals over a three-hour period to those experiencing homelessness.
Jesuit Fr. Tim McCabe's ministry in Detroit taught him that many homeless people needed much more than a drop-in center for a meal or shower. He hopes the new Bridge Housing Campus will fill some gaps.
The average apartment in San Jose runs $2,400 a month, But Claire McManmon, a Catholic school teacher, pays $1,000 a month for communal housing in a renovated convent across the street from where she works.
Kerri Murray, president of the disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA, told NCR her Catholic upbringing taught her empathy, a value that imbues her work to provide shelter for people displaced by war and disaster.
We need a new story in which we are bound in love and justice to the tens of thousands of persons living and dying on our streets, writes commentator David DeCosse.
A triad of freeways intermingle at the Hollywood Split, and its network of underpasses has been a gathering spot for those experiencing homelessness. St. Charles Borromeo Holy Family Service Center is trying to help.
Permanent supportive housing is a key part of addressing chronic homelessness, but programs need more funding and support from the federal government and local communities, advocates and homelessness experts told NCR.
In their book Beyond Homelessness, authors Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh claim that homelessness "is a matter of 'placelessness' " where one lacks a sense of connection, identity and love.
Older Americans are currently experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness at rates not seen in decades; in fact, people 65 and older are the fastest growing population of unhoused people in the U.S.
Across the U.S., disabled people facing homelessness endure unique struggles because of a shortage of affordable, accessible housing. Catholic organizations are among those trying to help.
A vacant Knights Inn in South Bend, Indiana, has been renovated as "Motels4Now," a project to offer immediate housing to persons experiencing homelessness. "It's only from a place of stability that you can work on other issues," its director said.
A family-owned, commercial real estate developer in Silicon Valley is trying to help with one of the region's most enduring challenges: creating more affordable housing.
Tracy Kidder's latest book is an investigation of homelessness titled Rough Sleepers. A strength of the book is the time the author invested in getting to know people whose daily lives on the streets are almost unimaginable.
Directors of three food banks connected to Catholic dioceses — in the states of New York, Indiana and Louisiana — recently shared with NCR about the challenges they are navigating in 2023.
