Gauteng Department of Human Settlements spent R78-million on plans that never materialised Families living at Khutsong Hostel in Carletonville say their living conditions have been deteriorating. The ...

A new report is the latest to highlight alleged inhumane, degrading and unsanitary conditions at migrant detention facilities ...

Parents Charged After Missing Child Leads Police to 10 Kids 'Living in Squalor' as Mom Denies Abuse Ten children were removed from a home in Fairfield, California, after police discovered they ...

Tenants at a Buffalo apartment complex say they’re battling more than rent hikes—they’re battling rats, roaches, and ...

Police in Chandler responded to April Mclaughlin's home on Friday and found dozens of dogs living in squalor with no water. Mclaughlin had been running a shelter for special needs dogs, but the ...

PEOPLE Explains: 10 Kids Found Living in Squalor as Mom Says She's 'Amazing Mother' "It literally breaks your heart, and you're outraged by how a parent or anyone could commit those acts," Sharon ...

By Quentin Fottrell 'She's had an untreated abscessed tooth for over a year and was scammed out of $5,000 ' Dear Quentin, My mother is 90 but hasn't spoken to me in over a year after I tried to ...

Yet the squalor to which Tompkins Square Park had descended was a stark symbol of a city that had become menacing and unlivable. That began to change markedly only in the Giuliani years. And now ...

San Francisco is spending about $22,000 every hour on homeless people this year, but still can't get Joe Dinovo and thousands like him off its streets. The Chronicle and horrified passers-by ...

The solution, Marche believes, is squalor. He strongly urges women to give up control in the home: do less and care less about whether the bathroom tiles gleam or not.

Their offspring are sleeping under tarps in frigid weather in an encampment that is home to an epic urban rat infestation. They keep texting two words to their kids: “Come home.” ...