CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Jackie Jenks, president and CEO of the Inter-Faith Council (IFC) for Social Services, says she has seen an increase in people experiencing homelessness in Orange County.

For the last four years, whenever winter temperatures drop to freezing, Orange County staff and volunteers operate an ...

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More Orange County kids are homeless and depending on free school meals and CalFresh benefits ahead of Christmas.

Persistent homelessness in Orange County has local leaders seeking new strategies to address the urgent need for affordable housing. At a summit organized by Orange County Second District Supervisor ...

Orange County officials and front-line workers are responding with a mix of concern and selective support to President Donald Trump's new executive order targeting homelessness, a sweeping directive ...

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You never know what the person in front of you might be going through. In line at the market, at school dropoff, at the park. Maybe there wasn’t enough food in the fridge that day for three meals ...

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