Khristina Simpson sits on a couch in her apartment in Plano. She and 19 others receive housing assistance through The Bridge, a Dallas-based homeless resource center. Khristina Simpson has worked as a ...

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com Inc., has pledged $2.5 million to Simpson Housing Services, a Minneapolis nonprofit that helps homeless individuals and families find stable housing.

Meg Mannix was emotional Thursday night as she held up a sign honoring a man she knew who died while homeless. She joined about 180 people walking on the outskirts of downtown Minneapolis as part of ...