The Hope 220 Solution Center in the Spring Garden neighborhood is part of an effort to eliminate homelessness in Philadelphia.

On Tuesday morning, PHLCares donated $500,000 to Hope 220, which is the Philly area’s new low-barrier transitional housing facility that will better serve the homeless/unhoused population in the area.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- For those without homes in Philadelphia, Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission is opening its arms this Thanksgiving. The rescue mission has been around for 141 years helping the hungry ...

Philadelphia taxpayers have spent around $270,000 funding a scheme that buys one-way bus tickets for homeless people in an attempt to get them to leave the city. The Stranded Traveler Assistance ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More than 200 volunteers canvassed Philadelphia on Wednesday night for the federally mandated annual homeless census, known as the Point in Time Count. The count includes all ...

Philadelphia’s new push to get to “a functional zero in homelessness” — meaning no one seeking shelter is turned away for lack of space — will depend in large part on creating enough new beds in ...

Lawmakers and housing advocates in Pennsylvania are calling on the commonwealth to take a more compassionate response to homelessness on the heels of a monumental ruling that allows local government ...

Candice Player, right, speaks against the "criminalization of homelessness" at a Nov. 18 press conference. At left, Rep. Ismail Smith-Wade-El (D-Lancaster) and Sen. Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia) listen ...