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When it comes to H.I.V. and AIDS — the epidemic and its politics — New York has always looked different from the rest of the country. It has the nation’s highest rates of infection and illness, an unusual range of public and private services for those affected, and some of the bigges… Continue

Frank Stephens still shows up at the local day shelter for meals. But since April, Stephens, who conceals a feeding tube under his T-shirt, has had trouble eating anything more than the tiniest of bites.

That's because not far from the Bluffs day shelter - MOHM's Place - the 50-year-old Stephens was severely beaten by another homeless man and spent nearly two weeks in a medically induced coma.

It was the first of two particularly brutal beatings of homeless men in Council Bluffs this year. Jef… Continue

Efforts implemented by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have failed to significantly reduce number of the city's homelessness as planned, a study says.

A report from the New York Independent Budget Office said when compared to data from 2004, the year Bloomberg implemented his homelessness plan, nearly the same amount of families are living in New York homeless shelters this March, The New York Times said Friday.

While March 2008 saw nearly 8,500 New York families living in such shelters, t… Continue