The agency will try to house people currently living in shelters first.

About 60,000 children live in shelters, down from 170,000 a decade ago.

Others live for years, sometimes their whole lives, in shelters.

The players are homeless men, living on the street or in shelters.

The 270 people left homeless are living in the church and other shelters.

About 18 percent of people living in homeless shelters have jobs.

Large numbers of people are still living in temporary shelters.

And the families of some women who lost jobs lived in homeless shelters.

Most of the women live in shelters, some on the street.

Without a home, she lived in various shelters for a year and a half, always with an underlying fear.