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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/opinion/charity-holiday-gift-giving-guide.html I won’t forget the first time I volunteered for a Nashville homeless ministry called https://www.roomintheinn.org/. It was decades ago, in 1990, on a cold night in the dead of […]

Byline: By, Sadiq Khan Every night someone spends on our streets, is a night spent exposed to the threat of the elements, to violence and to loneliness. It's an experience [...]

Byline: Donna Ferguson On the Victoria Embankment in central London, there is a bench overlooking the River Thames. Jay Flynn, the 42-year-old quizmaster who ran online pub quizzes for hundreds [...]

Byline: Anna Johnston When I was nine years old, I kept a diary. One entry contained a list of four essential requirements for my future husband. Number one was that [...]

It's the summer of 2023. I'm sitting in the dirt at sunrise under an I-15 overpass in the middle of one of Salt Lake City's largest homeless encampments. The smell [...]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but drinking Yerba Mate, wearing Carhartt and listening to Noah Kahan don't make you a Vermonter. I'm from Richmond, Vermont. I've lived [...]

Byline: By, Jaspreet Kaur Sitting in freezing temperatures, asking for change from passers-by and having nowhere to call home is the stark reality for rough sleepers in Coventry. Yet although [...]

Byline: By, Wesley Holmes People living on a 'quiet' Huyton street where neighbours 'keep themselves to themselves' were disturbed by a shocking arson attack. Fire engines and police rushed to [...]

Byline: Troy R. Bennett Feb. 15PORTLAND, Maine I've been at this for a long time, something like 25 years, and it's not the first time readers have questioned a photo [...]

Byline: Emma Sheppard On 24 February 2022, Olena became a refugee overnight. The landscape lighting designer had just arrived in the UK to visit her son, who is studying at [...]

Byline: Kwame Anthony Appiah The magazine's Ethicist columnist on when spontaneous generosity affects a family's finances. I have raised two sons without financial help from their father and recently put [...]

Byline: By, Ella Bennett Sam spent eight months living on the streets of London through a cold, harsh winter, where he says he met some of the best and worst [...]

Byline: Interview by Chris Broughton In 2005, I was living in the Mission district of San Francisco and working in advertising as a creative director. I was struggling with the [...]

Byline: By, Wesley Holmes It was a mild autumn night when Julie Boathe woke up to a large man crawling into her bed. Paralysed with fear, she pleaded with him [...]

Byline: By, Ayokunle Oluwalana 'If I wasn't here, I'd want someone to do the same thing for my kids,' says Carmen Craig, a mum of four and grandmother. Carmen for [...]

Byline: Robert Dex PRINCE William has revealed how his late mother Princess Diana inspired him to take to the streets of London to sell The Big Issue and said he [...]

Byline: By, Paige Freshwater There's nothing more wholesome than welcoming a street dog into your home -but it's not always for you to decide whether they need help. A woman [...]

Byline: By, Tara Cobham & Ryan Fahey A homeless man can't secure a place to live because hostels won't take him in with the dog that 'saved his life'. Mick [...]

Byline: By, Pete Price I watched an amazing busker the other day in London, at Leicester Square. He was singing with a voice that would make you melt. He was [...]

Byline: Gasim Hashim Gasim Hashim is an unhoused person. On Feb. 11, my D.C. Council member, Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1) announced that all the people living at Adams Morgan [...]

Byline: Annabel AttridgeAnnabel Attridge Photo by Annabel Attridge In my time as a photographer, I have met many people. I have talked with those at the bottom of the economic [...]

Byline: Anonymous Monday I'm looking at the list of names on the office wall of all the women I support, who are all involved in selling sex on the streets. [...]