homelessness

Dallas City Hall is moving more employees to help keep former homeless encampments from filling back up. NBC 5’s David Goins reports it’s part of a larger effort to end homeless sleeping overnight and outdoors by finding housing for as many neighbors as possible.

Dallas City Manager said dozens of employees will help in ongoing city efforts to keep cleared-out downtown homeless encampments from repopulating.

UT Dallas choirs are lifting their voices with other local choirs to shine a light on homelessness. NBC 5’s Noelle Walker reports they’re rehearsing for a performance next weekend of an original rock oratorio called ‘Shelter Me.’

Homelessness is at an all-time high nationwide – but not in Dallas, due in part to the work of The Stewpot. That’s why NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 would like you to join The Stewpot and volunteer during Love Your Neighbor Week, April 6 – April 12, as they celebrate “50 Years of Loving Our Neighbors,” which highlights its long…

A Dallas City Council committee on Monday requested a proposal that would help the city gauge developers’ interest in the site of the former University General Hospital.

Dallas City Council approved $2.5M to house the homeless, with more funding up for vote in March.

The federal government requires agencies to conduct a “Point-in-Time” census of the homeless population in the last 10 days of January.

The Point-in-Time count, which helps communities understand the extent of homelessness, is set to take place Thursday in parts of North Texas. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen has the details.

Federal officials say the United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country.

The next major piece to addressing homelessness is now open in northeast Dallas. As NBC 5’s David Goins shows us, an old hotel remodel brings about new opportunities for those calling it home now.

The next major piece in addressing homelessness is now open in Northeast Dallas, as an old hotel remodel is creating new opportunities for those who call it home.

Dallas city leaders say a targeted program to find housing for people living in downtown encampments is already showing results. NBC 5’s David Goins reports Housing Forward, the nonprofit overseeing the effort, says $30 million will help expand its ‘Street to Home’ outreach.

Housing Forward, the non-profit overseeing the effort, says $30 million will help expand the outreach beyond downtown Dallas.

Education researchers at SMU who have spent years studying student homelessness and want educators to read all about their findings. NBC 5’s Noelle Walker reports on their unique approach to presenting the research.

Two researchers at SMU’s Simmons School of Education & Human Development wrote ‘Uprooted: Voices of Student Homelessness,’ a comic book addressing children experiencing homelessness in America and how to identify and help them.

Homelessness is at the top of the agenda for candidates in mayoral races across the U.S. West. But they differ on whether it’s OK to clear encampments that have spread as the crisis has deepened and how much to rely on temporary housing.

The nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul of Dallas is on a mission to address several issues. That includes poverty, homeless, and running a charitable pharmacy. As we get closer to the end of summer and school starting soon we learn more about their study time program in this NBC 5 Community Conversation with vince sims.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that city laws which punish homeless people who sleep outside are constitutional and do not violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

In downtown Atlanta, shipping containers have been transformed into an oasis for dozens of previously unsheltered people who now proudly call a former parking lot home. It’s just one example of micro communities that have been popping up across the U.S. In Denver, 1,500 people have been moved indoors through that city’s own micro community program.

Join the Dallas 24 Hour Club in celebrating 55 years of hope and healing at their upcoming birthday bash.