PORTLAND, Ore. — A city audit investigation has found the Joint Office of Homeless Services, a city and county-funded program housing those facing homelessness, wasted taxpayer dollars on a property ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wasted nearly $2 million when most of the smartphones bought during the pandemic for homeless veterans went unused, according to an inspector general's report.

Here’s a thought experiment: If the state shovels out billions of dollars to combat homelessness without monitoring how effectively it was spent, how do we know the money was not wasted? We can only ...