No deaths were reported, but slum dwellers spent the day sifting through heaps of ashes searching for their belongings. | Latest News Delhi ...

A 23-year-old man charged with murder in what appears to be a random attack in Sylmar last year may have been motivated by anger about homelessness, according to a search ...

There's a particular kind of travel brochure that doesn't look like a travel brochure. It shows up as a voluntourism website, a heritage tourism pitch, or a "authentic cultural experience" package.

People living nearby saw the smoke and called the fire department right away. The firefighters worked through the night to control the flames. After several hours of battling the fire, they finally ...

We went into Makoko, one of Lagos’s most famous floating slums, expecting a boat ride through one of the busiest communities in Nigeria. What we found was much harder to forget: toilets built over the ...

Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a ...

AI and robotics companies need data on movements in the physical world. Some are paying gig workers to record themselves ...

Solo living can be considerably more expensive than sharing a home. Here’s where people do it the most. By Vince Dixon Nine out of 10 Americans live with someone else, but the portion of one-person ...

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted is catching flak for comments about people in poverty as he touted a bill to tackle benefits cliffs.

A sharp decrease in overdose deaths in L.A. County drove the first decline in homeless mortality in over a decade. Health and homeless service officials hope the trend can continue as homeless ...

In his latest 30-minute mini-documentary, Goldberg goes under Manila’s busiest highway — San Andreas Bukid — where around 300 people (about 100 families) live in makeshift homes.

There are only 31 affordable homes for rent for every 100 extremely low-income renter households in Chicago, according to a new report.