HomeRise's board agreed Thursday to what a spokesperson called "an orderly resident-centered wind-down" over one to two years, requiring the city to transition operations and supportive services at 17 complexes housing more than 1,500 residents to new providers. The Chronicle reported the nonprofit received $240 million in public funds over a recent four-year period and that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing announced in late July it would not renew four of nine supportive-services contracts. The Chronicle described the shutdown as without precedent for a provider of its size in the city.
The city placed HomeRise on its most severe level of nonprofit monitoring in March 2026 after a resident's death at Jazzie Collins Apartments.
Maricopa County had confirmed 230 heat-related deaths in 2026 as of the report, a 60% increase over the same point last year, with another 567 deaths still under investigation. County Chief Medical Examiner Jeff Johnston said the 2023 record of 645 will likely stand but 2026 could be the second- or third-highest year. Preliminary data showed 34% of this year's heat deaths occurred indoors, up from about 24% over the prior three years; early county data showed people experiencing homelessness may account for a smaller share of this year's heat deaths than in previous years, and the Phoenix City Council approved more than $5 million for heat relief this year.
Heat deaths in Maricopa County fell 30% in 2025 from the prior year.
Clark County coroner's records showed heat contributed to at least 260 deaths in 2026, 74 of them people listed as homeless, as Las Vegas closed its second-warmest summer on record. Clark County said it conducts roughly 1,200 encampment cleanups a year using Public Works, Social Services, Code Enforcement and outreach partners. An outreach volunteer described a woman whose heart medication was discarded during a cleanup.
The 260 and 74 figures are countywide coroner counts for Clark County, not city of Las Vegas totals.
A Chronicle records analysis found the number of people whom official documents indicate had been homeless before they were found dead in Houston's bayous has risen in recent years, with total bayou deaths surpassing 30 a year for the first time in 2024 and 2025. The increase came as the region's annual unsheltered count dropped to its lowest point since Hurricane Harvey, under 1,300 every year since 2023. Ben King, founding director of the University of Houston's Institute for Housing, Homelessness and Health, has documented the trend in an annual homeless mortality report.
A prior Chronicle analysis tallied 201 deaths along Harris County bayous in medical examiner records from 2017 through late November 2025; the unsheltered count covers Harris, Montgomery and Fort Bend counties.
During an extreme heat warning with inland temperatures forecast in the triple digits, homeless residents of East Village used the San Diego Central Library and the trolley system as cooling spaces; people without secure storage for belongings or with multiple pets said they could not go inside. Father Joe's Villages said its street team was distributing hats, water and heat-illness education in East Village. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office reported 17 heat-exposure deaths countywide in 2024, almost double the prior year, and the article said it is unclear how many of those people were homeless.
The Neil Good Day Center, a daytime shelter, is scheduled to shutter this fall.
A special prosecutor said former LAPD officer Clifford Proctor was indicted on one count of second-degree murder for shooting Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man, in the back outside a Venice bar in May 2015. Proctor was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty. A prior indictment returned in 2024 was dismissed in June by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who said Proctor had a reasonable belief Glenn was a threat.
Judge Ronald S. Coen dismissed the previous murder indictment on June 5, 2026, and prosecutors appealed that ruling.
Houston police were investigating three deaths in which bodies were found in or near area bayous over two weeks: an unidentified man's decomposed body on the banks of Buffalo Bayou, a man recovered from Brays Bayou near the Gulf Freeway, and a woman's partially burned body found near the Gulf Freeway on July 29. Autopsy results were pending in all three cases and police had not established a connection between the deaths.
Forensic investigators documented more than 30 people whose bodies were recovered from Houston-area bayous in 2025, with causes of death ranging from drug-related drownings to blunt-force trauma.