ATLANTIC CITY ... And the city remains a place where signs of poverty co-exist with symbols of excess — limousines zipping past pawn shops and homeless people. The poverty rate is 29 percent ...

That’s well above the national rate. When an emergency shelter at the Atlantic City Convention Center closed over the weekend, 100 people were still there and had to be moved to hotels ...

“My mother was full of compassion for the people,” said her ... She was a workhorse for the poor,” said Bill Southrey, director of the Atlantic City Rescue Mission. “You look at her ...

Where Should Poor ... city, and where the most public housing is located. Technically, voucher holders can live anywhere in a region that meets the price restrictions. But the tendency is for ...

Atlantic City has launched a large campaign to tackle its homeless issue once and for all, which includes writing up a law to ban people from sleeping in public spaces, officials said. After the ...

Kenneth Mitchem, who was brought on last year as Atlantic City’s director of social services to help tackle the homeless problem, said he was astounded by the ingenuity of the people he met ...

About 30 people who struggle with homelessness were cleared out of an encampment early Monday beneath the Playground Pier, which is owned by Caesars, off the Atlantic City boardwalk. A number of ...

In Woodbridge, about 100 miles north of Atlantic City, in recent years the state has bought and torn down more than 150 homes to remove people and property from the danger of future floods.

about 9,700 Atlantic City homes are predicted to be exposed to flooding by 2050. That’s 2,700 more homes than what’s estimated with standard sea-level rise projections. “Sea-level rise is real — and ...