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SAN FRANCISCO - A social experiment filmed in San Francisco is going viral because of a homeless man's incredible act of kindness. The video shows a man sleeping on a bench near the Metreon Shopping ...

SAN DIEGO — Sporting a bright smile and the polished Super Bowl ring he won as a star NFL player in the late 1980s, Craig McEwen doesn’t fit the archetype of someone teetering on the brink of ...

When passing by a homeless person on the street, many people are taught not to slow down or make eye contact, especially if it’s at a time where they have no money to offer. That theory was put to the ...

When Sacramento changed its plan to demolish a homeless encampment on a vacant lot on Colfax Street, instead offering the homeless occupants a lease, activists and camp residents celebrated it as a ...

Typically up to 50 homeless people come off the streets every day to eat lunch at Friendship House in Mount Vernon. That has been the case for 32 years. These days, however, the doors are increasingly ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) -- San Jose homeless advocates are demanding answers about how a city program to house people in trailers during the pandemic failed. A small group gathered just outside the gates of ...