A woman who was found dead in Woodlawn Lake after being swept away by heavy rainfall had been living in a storm drain, according to the victim’s friend.

Corazon Ministries unveiled its new mobile medical unit on Friday, designed to provide health services to people experiencing homelessness in San Antonio.

The proposal aims to make working conditions safer for teachers but critics worry it could push the state’s most vulnerable students out of the classroom.

Councilman Manny Pelaez is drawing criticism online for a video in which he appears to frame many panhandlers as drug users and urges drivers to donate their money instead to nonprofits, such as the one his mother runs.

As San Antonio braces for a strong cold front, city leaders are preparing to implement their weather response plan.

Pastor Jimmy Robles leads a group of volunteers dedicated to spreading hope and ensuring everyone is fed and cared for.

Hundreds of volunteers hand-counted people without a place to call home on Tuesday night. The Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, led by the organization Close to Home,

After nearly a year of living on a broken futon in a field, a former U.S. Marine is starting over thanks to the efforts of several San Antonio-area organizations.

As the city sees frigid temperatures, advocates are urging anyone experiencing homelessness to seek help to stay safe and warm.

As temperatures drop below freezing once again on Tuesday night, those experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable.

In their bright yellow jackets, Centro San Antonio’s ambassadors can often be seen sprucing up the downtown streets or doling out directions to tourists.

As colder temperatures set in and rain chances increase, a nonprofit organization has opened its doors to provide shelter for those without a place to go.

Homeless support groups in San Antonio spoke with KSAT on Wednesday one day after SAPD said a woman gave birth on a public trailway and abandoned her baby.

On Monday, a group of nonprofits will join Mayor Ron Nirenberg at city hall to share their combined efforts to discuss issues exacerbating homelessness.

On Sunday, SAMMinistries brought together local artists, restaurants, musicians, and the San Antonio community to host its 24th annual Empty Bowls.

While teaching KSAT reporter Courtney Friedman how to paint, Sumon Bines-Karki’s quiet demeanor blossomed as he opened up about his difficulties and how his art got him through it.

Troy Dahman is a Texas native and a Navy veteran. However, after leaving the Navy and working elsewhere in San Antonio, he had a mental health crisis and began experiencing homelessness.

The city planned for 700 cleanups this year. It passed 1,100 and is planning 1,300 for FY 2025.

With recent crime downtown, local organizations are pushing their outreach efforts to unsheltered people.

The population of people experiencing homelessness in our area continues to grow, meaning more people are having to endure the elements.

A San Antonio survey of the population experiencing homelessness reveals hundreds are women and children escaping domestic violence situations.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow cities to enforce general bans on public camping, which are often aimed at homeless people, does not appear likely to affect San Antonio.

The ruling comes amid a nationwide surge in homelessness as high rents put pressure on low-income households and pandemic-era protections expire.

“Panhandling. It’s OK to say NO,” state the signs on Wurzbach Road, Huebner Road, De Zavala Road, and La Cantera Parkway. The signs feature a crossed-out image of money changing hands over a plea to donate to local charities instead.

New anti-panhandling signs are showing up on the Northwest Side to deter drivers from the practice.

The portal is a part of the City’s Strategic Housing Implementation Plan.

In Fiscal Year 2024 so far, city crews have completed more than 500 homeless encampment abatements.

There have already been 520 cleanups in San Antonio between October 2023 through March 2024, and the city’s director of human services estimates that could reach “probably 1,000 to 1,100″ by the end of the 2024 fiscal year.

When you walk into the shop, it feels like you're in a nice clothing store. While the clothes are brand new, they're not for sale. The shoppers are at-risk, foster, trafficked or homeless youth.

SAMMinistries’ 200-unit permanent supportive housing gets $3.9M in Bexar County ARPA funds.

The Leon Valley police chief says the department fields dozens of calls a year related to homelessness. He's hoping a new street outreach program will help the city with its already limited resources.

Georgia DeVries, an East Texas 17-year-old, shared her experience living in a car for one month last year on TikTok.

As the homeless shelters pack with people escaping the cold, substance use recovery teams are seeing an opportunity. Volunteers can now offer resources to a larger network of people at Corazon Ministries’ Day Center.

Local nonprofits are hitting the streets to get those experiencing homelessness off the streets on a frigid night.

Living outside in the elements can be tough, but people experiencing homelessness say temperatures this low can be deadly. That's why shelters across the county are opening up day and night shelters.

Homelessness rose last year across nearly every demographic group, but strides were made to connect people with new housing.

The deaths included people living on the streets or in shelters, with ages ranging from 94 years old down to an 11-day-old infant.

This East Side neighborhood is home to an ecosystem of social service organizations. With more than five of these groups catered to helping the homeless population, some neighbors worry the number of people without shelter in the neighborhood will only climb.

As part of the SAFFE unit — an acronym for San Antonio Fear Free Environment — Officer Carlos Gutierrez is tasked with trying to prevent crime before it happens.

The view of downtown from many of the homes in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood is second to none, but they also have a front-row seat to some of the city’s biggest issues: homelessness, gentrification and rising property taxes.

This edition of Know My Neighborhood explores the push and pull of preservation versus progress, the heart of a neighborhood in transition and the struggle for the community to define itself.

Tens of thousands of people sat down to Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, courtesy of one charitable organization.

A local Marine veteran is proving you can break the cycle of homelessness and addiction. His success landed him in a local photography exhibit, and he's using the platform to remind struggling veterans, they are not in this alone.

This week is Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, and San Antonio area nonprofits and agencies are teaming up to house 90 homeless families in 90 days.

A Holiday Inn employee said hotel staff learned of the plan through KSAT’s reporting. Official word from management didn’t come down until the next day, they said.

Just days after San Antonio City Council members approved a $15.9 million plan to use a downtown hotel as a 200-room, low-barrier homeless shelter, the childcare center next door says it is “outraged.”

Less than four months ago, we met 66-year-old Nathan Finley at Haven for Hope. He had been living on the streets for over 10 years. Now, thanks to a new Haven for Hope program, he's in a new apartment.

San Antonio’s city-funded low-barrier homeless shelter will move to a larger, leased hotel downtown where it will have more than four times as many rooms.

Haven for Hope, the largest homeless shelter in San Antonio, is operating at capacity.

The city council passed the $3.7 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2024 Thursday morning in a 10-0-1 vote. It will take effect Oct. 1 at the beginning of the 2024 fiscal year.

The City of San Antonio plans to ramp up its use of a controversial strategy in handling its homelessness problem.

The economy's downturn and rising housing prices have left many senior citizens homeless, and Haven for Hope is seeing a spike in older clients.

Three teens in three exceptionally tough situations have risen above. The students separately ended up at Haven for Hope alone this past year, without family members to accompany them. Now, they are high school graduates.

The South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless has released this year’s Point-In-Time Count results. It’s a one-night snapshot that provides information about those experiencing homelessness.

The South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) will present the 2023 State of Homelessness in San Antonio & Bexar County.

A longtime resident of San Antonio’s Deco District says the constant presence of a homeless encampment in the alley behind his home is negatively impacting his daily life.

YWCA San Antonio says 30 women, including some with children, could be housed in the former St. Andrew's convent by the end of March.

Activists who work with unhoused people noted improvements in the city’s planning and coordination, but said shelters were difficult to reach for some and couldn’t accommodate families with children.

Friends in North Austin removed downed trees from neighbors’ roofs, while closer to the city core, volunteers rushed to meet the immediate needs of people without homes — those most severely impacted by the freezing temperatures.

In Texas, the number of homeless veterans has dropped 65% between 2007 and 2020, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Cities and nonprofits are using a variety of strategies to keep unhoused people warm. But some organizations warn they’re already at capacity as El Paso sends migrants across the state.

President Joe Biden's administration is making a new push to reduce homelessness.

This year marks the 43rd anniversary of the event which will take place on Nov. 24 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on E. Market St.

This year marks the 43rd anniversary of the event which will take place on Nov. 24 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on E. Market St.

A year after William Hawkins, 35, was shot in a downtown gas station parking lot near McCullough Avenue and U.S. 281, his family is frustrated by what they see as a lack of justice. The Oct. 14, 2021 shooting happened in broad daylight, and was captured on camera, but the shooter is not currently facing any charges.

San Antonio became the first community in the U.S. to surpass a nationwide effort to help end homelessness, city officials announced Monday.

Kameron Rhys's experience with homelessness at 22 taught him what gaps need to be filled when it comes to unsheltered youth. He's using his voice to make big plans come to fruition.

A haircut seems so simple, but for those experiencing homelessness, a physical makeover can make big goals become reality.

Police have had to eject hundreds of people from encampments. They still struggle to tell many of them where to go.

Started in 2021 following some smaller-scale pilot programs, the outreach team has 11 positions - one for each city council district and another for downtown. But in the little over a year-and-a-half since the first team members started, the city says it has had five resignations from the team.

Currently, there are close to 1,600 people staying at Haven for Hope, but some are sleeping in other non-dorm areas, including the chapel and classrooms.

Sky high housing costs are affecting us all, but they're hitting people experiencing homelessness especially hard.

Heat-related emergency calls have spiked amid historic heat. Cooling centers are available in major cities but often close in the late afternoon — during the hottest parts of the day.

Austin joins at least 28 U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and Pittsburgh, that have tried out some form of “guaranteed income” — financial assistance targeted at needy households.

As San Antonio voters decide whether to approve the city’s biggest-ever bond program, they’re also considering a new way to fund affordable housing.

Canceled last year due to the pandemic, the annual Point in Time Count resumed Tuesday night, updating its 2020 census of people experiencing homelessness in San Antonio and Bexar County.

Casar has impressive progressive endorsements, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. But he also is tied to some of Austin’s most progressive policies, which have attracted powerful enemies and turned off some moderate Democrats.

Advocates say emergency communications have not improved much since last year, and people experiencing homelessness were less likely to seek help this year because of new state and local policies targeting them.

With temperatures set to drop starting overnight Wednesday, local groups working with people experiencing homelessness are preparing to help people living on the streets to weather the cold.

Roy Maas Youth Alternatives has been helping local children in crisis for years and its success is being recognized nationwide.

From a Hip Hop majorette dancer to a Bexar County Deputy luchador fighting at night, What Up South Texas exploded with fun in 2021.

Homeless woman eating food from the dumpster turns life around and earns a PhD.

There are several ways you and your family can give back this holiday season including volunteering at a local church that provides resources to get those experiencing homelessness back on their feet.

Bexar County Pct. 4 Constable Kathryn Brown hopes to better serve her community through a pantry she opened in her office.

Kim Jefferies was named Friday the new president and CEO of Haven for Hope, a nonprofit aimed at helping and transforming the homeless in San Antonio.

Friends and family of 35-year-old William Hawkins were comforted by song, poetry and prayer and by the words of tribute and remembrance by those who knew and loved him during a memorial service Thursday at Christian Assistance Ministry.

Months after Austin voters reinstated the city’s public camping ban, authorities are clearing many of the largest encampments. Their former residents are going “anywhere it’s safe and out of sight, out of mind,” one man said.

A San Antonio local veteran who has battled homelessness for several years is hoping his story inspires others to donate to the San Antonio Food Bank during Hunger Action Month.

After weeks of educating people about the ban that voters approved in May, police are allowed to start arresting violators this week as the city tries to find more housing.

Downtown businesses’ issues with people experiencing homelessness have spurred the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office to send deputies on patrol along the River Walk -- though not in great numbers nor with the ability to enforce all the local laws.

City staff presented the Public Safety Committee with an update of the police services review that began last year in response to numerous protests and calls to change policing in San Antonio.

Under Mario Bravo’s predecessor, Roberto Treviño, the District 1 field office near IH-10 and Vance Jackson, next to the Westfall Library, had been a safe haven for people experiencing homelessness to camp out. The situation has exasperated neighbors in the surrounding area, though, who hope the new councilman will get rid of the camp.

The City of San Antonio will lease a downtown hotel to use as a low-barrier shelter for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

The vote comes only weeks after Austin residents voted to reinstate a local public camping ban — two years after it was lifted.

A San Antonio man is turning his dark past of homelessness into an opportunity to motivate and inspire others in the homeless community.

SAN ANTONIO – Haven for Hope has been preparing for the upcoming cold weather. President for Haven for Hope, Molly Biglari said an indoor space will be used for sleeping. “We want to be able to offer even under these incredible services with COVID every service and that’s Haven’s services and our partner’s services,” she said. Haven for Hope will also offer cold weather clothing, warm jackets, and gloves. New clients should appear at Haven for Hope’s Intake (currently operating out of the Donation Center at 1 Haven for Hope Way) between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

SAN ANTONIO – The City of San Antonio dismantled another downtown homeless camp Friday at Main Street and I-35, just two days after they cleared out a camp at Brooklyn Avenue and I-37. “We’ll leave a camp in place if there’s no health or safety concern. Outreach crews from the city and its partners had been by the camp several times in the previous weeks, Steck said, offering assistance connecting with various services. Steck said out of everyone in the camp, three people accepted help with getting shelter services. RELATED: Homeless encampment will stay outside councilman’s office as city continues outreach efforts

SAN ANTONIO – City staff presented a new five-year strategic plan on Wednesday to deal with homelessness in San Antonio and Bexar County. They said they are also planning for a possible wave of newly homeless residents from COVID-19-related evictions. The strategic plan was developed by California-based nonprofit Homebase and includes recommendations such as increasing the investment in outreach teams and community-based housing and services. RECOMMENDATION #5: Develop detailed prioritization policies and targeted interventions to most effectively connect persons experiencing unsheltered homelessness to stable housing. RECOMMENDATION #6: Increase focus on consumer engagement and equity throughout the homelessness response system.

But counties say that with some federal relief funding expiring soon or its status uncertain, it's time to transition residents from expensive hotel rooms to cheaper, more stable housing. California is one of several states, including Washington, that turned to hotels to shelter homeless people as the virus took hold. The department has said it plans to move homeless people out of all 29 hotels by June. Russ Heimerich, spokesman with the state's Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, says counties have resources to continue housing homeless people in hotels. They say hotel residents have flourished with regular checkups and meals.

Tomanique Grant is one of several people who recently took to living in a tent, right alongside a busy downtown street. (KSAT 12 News)He bunks down each night in a fenced off parking lot near N. Main, alongside people in more than a half dozen other tents. (KSAT 12 News)They not only live together, but share chores and any food they can find. Grant says the closures related to the coronavirus left him and many other homeless people without any assistance. On October 15, San Antonio police moved in and shut down the encampment, not long after KSAT 12 News spoke with the city’s Department of Human Services about it.