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Obesity is one of the most pressing concerns in contemporary American life, and a new study finds that it affects the country's homeless population as much as it does the general population. Andrea De Mink, the founder and executive of an Indianapolis-based homelessness organization The PourHouse, strives to provide her patrons with the healthiest food possible in order to combat this rising concern, and Barbara DiPietro, the policy director of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, explains why this research is largely unsurprising.

The Department of Homeless Services announced on its web site Friday that it will not pay February rents for at least 9,000 formerly homeless families and individuals currently receiving rental assistance through the Advantage housing program.

For homeless New Yorkers, finding shelter from the elements can be a life or death situation.

Some city council members are expressing outrage at a homeless prevention study that is denying certain families services.

New York City wants to know whether homeless prevention programs are serving the right people, so it's conducting a study that has some elected officials upset.