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James Harrison is one of around 150 people now able to vote thanks to registration drives aimed at making sure the democratic process is accessible to everyone, regardless of housing status.
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A national drug trial being organized at Upstate aims to find a safer treatment for the chronic inflammatory disease lupus.On this week’s “HealthLink on…
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Montgomery County has emerged as a COVID-19 hot spot. At River City Church, where half the congregation is or once was homeless, outreach programs work to protect their most vulnerable.
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San Francisco's homelessness solution is one that was once thought unthinkable: city-sanctioned open-air encampments. The advent of COVID-19 forced city leaders to make the difficult decision.
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Libraries, gyms, coffee shops and fast food restaurants all help fill gaps in the social safety net. But with those spaces closed due to the coronavirus, unhoused people have few places to go.
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The Hire Ground program in Syracuse picks up panhandlers and the homeless and pays them $50 for five hours of manual labor, like cleaning up litter. The…
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Groups of volunteers and human service professionals with the Housing & Homeless Coalition of Central New York will be canvassing Oswego, Onondaga and…
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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and in honor of the civil rights leader, the Utica Municipal Housing Authority is teaming up with AmeriCorps…
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According to the Housing and Homeless Coalition of Central New York’s annual report, the number of people living on the streets and in shelters in a…
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A digital video of a Dunkin’ Donuts worker in Syracuse, dumping ice water onto a sleeping homeless man, has gone viral. It is prompting one homeless…