Homeless Crisis

Police officers escorted people out of Brooklyn's Coney Island station, the end of the line for several trains, and told them they would have to board buses to get to their destinations. Cleaners carrying bottles of bleach then boarded the trains.

The Connecticut agriculture commissioner is considering buying food in bulk to provide to organizations that feed needy people, which have seen huge upticks in demand coupled with challenges in getting supplies, he said Monday.

For those living in close quarters in city-run shelters, there’s fear of exposure to COVID-19.

The governor has ordered the MTA to clean all subway cars every night, as the system’s homeless population has soared in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

New York City officials are creating more so-called Safe haven beds in an effort to get homeless people out of the subway system during the coronavirus pandemic.

Advocates for the homeless and elected officials called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to house homeless New Yorkers in 30,000 vacant hotel rooms. 

Along the lonesome sidewalks, homeless New Yorkers remain, unprotected from the elements and a disease that passes swiftly between people often without any sign or symptom.

The city's homeless community is especially at risk of catching and spreading the coronavirus because they often don't have places to wash their hands and may live in close quarters.

Health officials have not yet reported coronavirus outbreaks among homeless populations, but tuberculosis and other diseases have swept through them in the past, underscoring their vulnerability.

Cops are teaming with nurses to help the homeless in New York.

The office of the nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee has been temporarily closed after an audit by the State Comptroller found that the BRC was not doing the outreach it was hired to do.

Police in Delaware were investigating the deaths of four people found inside a tent at a homeless camp.