Over half a million people are homeless in the United States; 25% of whom are in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles, nearly 54,000 people on any given night three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of 'care in the community' looks like amid a changing policy landscape. Intensely human and humanizing, the film provides a sweeping look at the historic and current causes...

Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's #1 shock deejay, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors: Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail, filled with...

Walter Davis is homeless after his mother's death, and he meets the girl of his dreams and tries to keep his circumstances from her.

Documentarian Joan Laskoff discovers artists and performers who show that dauntless creativity can exist even in the direst circumstances. The film explores the work of artists who are or have been homeless, giving us a candid look at their lives and the context for the wide range of art, from painting to hip hop, they produce. We also get invaluable insight into the therapeutic, empowering, and political potential of art.

"Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in the Neverwhere--a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely...

"The former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors"-- Provided by publisher.

Ho was a revered sensei but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student he renounced not only his possessions but also his role as a master and now roams the streets in search of a way to atone. Drawn by his presence a group forms around him. This searing new novel from the author of the acclaimed Burke series follows this band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.

When an Irish immigrant is killed, building the 1910s New York subway, a black co-worker supports his family, marrying the widow. The story is contrasted with today's subway, a place not of hope, but despair.

"How do individuals move from being homeless to finding safe, stable, and secure places to live? Can we recreate the conditions that helped them most? What policies are needed to support what worked-and to remove common obstacles? Addressing these questions, Jamie Rife and Donald Burnes start from the premise that the most important voices in efforts to end homelessness are the ones most often missing from the discussion: the voices of those with...

When an Ogre comes to town demanding a bride, the mayor sacrifices the homeless girl with no name that everyone thinks is a pest and a bother, but she finds a way to outwit them all.