Jessica Boehm

Many lenders lagged in signing up for the state’s mortgage assistance program, causing application backlogs.

Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor who spent her life writing and speaking about hope and humanity, died in Phoenix on Sunday. She was 97.

The Human Services Campus in Phoenix now has an additional 100-bed shelter for people experiencing homelessness — just in time for the summer heat.

Arizona has fewer shelter beds for homeless youth, more young people becoming homeless, and high rates of sex and labor trafficking, research shows.

Slightly more than 5,000 are living on the streets of metro Phoenix, according to the latest countywide count of people experiencing homelessness.

Skyrocketing rent and child care prices are making it more difficult for Arizona nonprofit Live and Learn to help Phoenix women rise out of poverty.

Incomplete applications and slow responses from mortgage lenders are holding up the dispersal of funds from the Arizona Homeowner Assistance Fund.

Arizona was one of a handful of states where the number of veterans staying in homeless shelters increased between 2020 and 2021.

A new storage program on the Human Services Campus in Phoenix gives people experiencing homelessness a clean garbage can to store their possessions.

A spike in homelessness among elderly people has led to more people circulating between hospitals and homeless shelters in metro Phoenix.