Westhab's Fort Greene Family Center provides apartment-style transitional housing for homeless families, a different model than the traditional shelter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHARLOTTE, NC — It’s the day before Thanksgiving and Johnika Jamison, 38, doesn't have holiday plans. She’s wearing elephant-print ...

Politically savvy Brooklyn fourth-graders are joining forces with the nonprofit group Coalition for the Homeless to fight for better housing conditions for their peers. On June 2, members of Kids for ...

The Slaight Family Foundation says the money will go to a St. Michael's Hospital research centre, as well as non-profit United Way Greater Toronto, to establish the Slaight Family Housing Lab — a ...

Teacher Herb Hickey holds a baby while she drinks from a bottle. Hickey has worked at the nonprofit Horizons for Homeless Children in Massachusetts for 13 years and frequently sees infants who are ...

In 2001, Bill and Melinda Gates promised to fund transitional housing for 1,500 homeless families in the Puget Sound region, providing them counseling and job training as well as shelter. The ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- Joshua and Kathleen Sayong and their three daughters -- 16-year-old Leila, 10-year-old Keila and 6-year-old Melyssa -- have spent the last two years without a home. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marisa Cervantes, the chief operation director for Family Promise of Las Vegas, shows one of the rooms in the organization's ...

Sometimes, good deeds can go wrong. But what happens when it affects your way of living? In this story, one Redditor’s mother takes in a family of five, and the family who is doing the good deed is ...

The easy part’s over,” Mercado said. “Now we have to put on our work boots and really make change for families suffering from housing instability.” ...