The Supreme Court criticised the practice of announcing freebies before elections, noting that it discourages people from working as they r...

The US has seen a staggering 18.1% increase in homelessness this year - with a lack of affordable housing proving to be a key issue. The dr...

The National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) mandates that every city should have one all-weather shelter for a population of one lakh.

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed Parliament regarding the progress of the flagship scheme, under which 4.5 million houses would b...

"If a person is homeless, how he is described in the Aadhaar card," the bench asked Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was repr...

The apex court on September 13 favoured an audit of the government funds meant for providing shelters to the urban homeless, saying the mon...

"The money is not spent by the states and the sufferers are the homeless people. How can you ensure that the money is spent? It should not ...

It appointed the committee to after the Centre informed the court that around 50% of the Rs 2,185 crore released have not been utilised by ...

The scheme comes with an aim of constructing more than 2 cr houses within a span of 7 years. The scheme, started in 2015, would end in 2022.

Highlighting the need to monitor the use of funds by the Centre, the apex court sought details of the expenditure and observed that it seem...

"It is a big scam. Your (Centre's) affidavit tells us everything. Where has the money gone?" asked a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U ...

The social-justice bench said the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is under an obligation to monitor the use of funds give...

The apex court had directed the HUPA Ministry to convene such a meeting for taking stock of availability of shelters and file an affidavit.

It said that a report, giving details of the actions taken so far, be filed within three weeks and the meeting of the Chief Secys has to be...

NHRC issued a notice to the Delhi Government seeking a report on the death of two homeless persons near a shelter home here.

A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana also directed the govt to file an affidavit on the number of homeless people who may have died d...

Delhi government announced that it would be opening 100 new night shelters across the city over the next few days with a view to providing ...