Rwanda-backed rebels controlling cities in eastern Congo have forcibly closed settlement camps, leading to the displacement ...

The clamor of hammering and the noise of rattling corrugated metal roofs echoed in Goma’s Bulengo camp for internally ...

Monday night, the city council voted 7 to 3 to remove the requirements to provide a shelter option and 72 hours' notice ...

When we think of refugee camps we probably imagine rows of tents, rapidly erected responses to crises. We might envision those seemingly ubiquitous UN tarpaulins in blue and white. But the problem ...

Fremont’s plan to ban homeless camps anywhere in the city has the potential to be the most forceful response yet in the Bay ...

A Pensacola homeless shelter for women says they have one week to find a new place to live after Escambia County passed a new ...

Aurora last year eliminated the 72-hour notice rule in select areas. The council is scheduled to cast an initial vote on nixing the rule for all camps Monday.

ACLU spokeswoman Meghan Barker says the city’s shelters are currently full, and officials shouldn’t be able to force homeless ...

She said she's sought out police, even gone to a fire station in search of a shelter referral. "I don't want to do this anymore, but I've contemplated setting my own camp on fire, like in hopes ...