homelessness

Homeless service providers across Kentucky say new laws and increased enforcement has driven homeless Kentuckians into hiding.

A faith-based organization from Clarksville, Tennessee is looking to open a homeless shelter across state lines in Oak Grove, Kentucky.

As homelessness rises in Kentucky, especially outside the two largest cities, the Trump administration wants to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal support for state housing programs.

After a church in Muhlenberg County provided her with shelter, a woman experiencing homelessness landed a job just days later. While some are trying to help homeless people in the rural western Kentucky area, the woman says others in the community "try to sweep us under the rug like we don’t exist.”

In Muhlenberg County – a rural area with few resources for people without shelter – a loose coalition of people are trying to address a growing need to help those experiencing homelessness.

In 2022, Tennessee became the first state to make camping on public land a felony crime. A slate of new legislation will further impact people without stable housing.

Groups across Kentucky are taking part this week in an annual effort to estimate the number of people currently experiencing homelessness in the Commonwealth.

She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day.

Advocates say that, too often in Kentucky, people with mental illness cycle through jails and prison as a default for proper treatment.

Challenges are growing for people experiencing homelessness in Kentucky, but a group of housing advocates is offering a different path forward.