Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.

In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.

God has fled, avenging angels hide out in the Everglades, and more “secret stories” passed down by homeless kids in Miami shelters.

Sometimes the Study Area seemed like a tumor that had burst on the side of capitalism. Other times it seemed like something ancient and sensible: people building dwellings, then improving them.

It’s the epicenter of the tech industry and the wealthiest, most progressive state in the union, but homelessness is surging — and no one can agree on how to fix it.

A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.

When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?

How one of the world’s foremost Beatles collectors died homeless on the streets of Little Rock.

Suzan Russaw is 70 years old. She lived in affordable Palo Alto housing for decades. Then, in 2013, she was forced to move into her car. On the new homeless of Silicon Valley.

On Arielle Holmes, a burgeoning actress who was, literally, plucked from the streets.

Robert Marbut is in the business of helping cities criminalize homelessness.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

The story of a call center virtuoso.

In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.

There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.

A breakdown of the early 80s homeless epidemic.