Houstonians in need of shelter struggle to get a simple answer about where they can go. Instead, they're confronted with a long list of shelters scattered across the city, many of which may be full or ...

The number of people living in shelters or outdoors stayed flat year over year in the Houston region, according to the 2024 results of an annual count. The number of people living on the streets fell ...

Some homeless individuals have received more than 1,000 tickets for encamping, letting materials accumulate, having a shopping cart and other offenses over the past four years. Many tickets are given ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. City of Houston workers, accompanied by police officers, clear an encampment of unhoused people along the Buffalo Bayou North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A City Council vote to approve purchasing an east downtown Houston property near Shell Stadium for what officials are calling a ...

Trazawell Franklin, left, and April Jamarillo, right, sit in front of the SEARCH Homeless Services center on Nov. 11, 2025. After city officials expanded the so-called civility ordinance in mid-July, ...

Dave, a homeless man, sits along Bagby Street next to another sleeping homeless man in Midtown in March, 2025. Midtown is one of the 12 areas in Houston where such behavior is illegal during daylight ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. — Away from the sun, under overpasses, life goes on for many of the nearly 80 people who live at a homeless encampment near downtown Houston, Texas. Most of the people are waiting ...

The funding comes from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs through the Fiscal Year 2027 Homeless Housing ...

Three people, including a pregnant woman, were shot at a reported homeless encampment near Harwin Drive Thursday morning, according to Houston police. Around 2 a.m. a 28-year-old pregnant woman was ...