Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Bergen County man and former security guard was convicted this week in connection with the assault of a homeless man in Newark ...

Officials in Emerson, New Jersey, have rejected a proposal from a nonprofit to open a new facility in their town to house homeless families. At its Feb. 20 meeting, the Emerson Land Use Board shot ...

A North Jersey-based nonprofit celebrated a milestone this month. The organization Family Promise of Bergen County has been serving meals to the homeless for 34 years and just served their 1.5 ...

After recording a 24% leap in New Jersey's homeless population last year, and as a dangerous January freeze grips the state, advocates are preparing for their latest annual survey of the unhoused in ...