Homelessness

Tommy Elam sits on a sidewalk with his belongings in downtown Atlanta on Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

Daniris Espinal stands for a portrait in Sunset Park, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Ivanni Herrera looks on during an interview in a park Friday, May 18, 2024, in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Patients gather outside one of the five Circle The City mobile clinics stationed outside a soup kitchen for homeless people, Thursday, May 30, 2024 in Phoenix. Based in the hottest big metro in America, Circle the City is taking measures to protect patients from life-threatening heat illness as temperatures hit new highs. Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the record 645 heat-related deaths last year in Arizona's Maricopa County, which encompasses metro Phoenix.(AP Photo/Matt York)

A dog in a dog run at the Melody greets visitors Friday, April 12, 2024, in Atlanta. The Melody is a housing complex made from shipping containers and is intended to help house people from Atlanta's homeless population. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Karla Finocchio, 55, holds up a picture of her dog Scrappy in her room at Ozanam Manor temporary housing for people 50 and up, in Phoenix, Feb. 4, 2022. Finocchio is one face of America’s graying homeless population, a rapidly expanding group of destitute and desperate people 50 and older suddenly without a permanent home after a job loss, divorce, family death or health crisis during the pandemic. (AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin)

People live in tents and trailers in Rockport, Texas, Dec. 15, 2017, four months after Hurricane Harvey. The AP revealed that the federal government typically spends up to $150,000 apiece on the trailers it leases to disaster victims, then auctions them at cut-rate prices after 18 months of use or the first sign of minor damage. Officials have continued the practice amid a temporary housing shortage in Texas, where almost 8,000 applicants were still awaiting federal support after Hurricane Harvey. (Kim Porter via AP)