Facebook Inc. is extending a sizable olive branch to neighbors rankled by its plans to expand its campus and bring 6,500 new employees to the area, a move some locals fear will exacerbate a growing housing shortage. The tech giant announced Friday it will spend about $20 million in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, Calif., two cities that surround its campus, to create a fund to build new housing, support job-training programs and provide legal assistance to tenants in danger of eviction.

A tent city in the shadow of the Santa Ana city hall is home to about 500 people. “They want to pretend we don’t exist. It makes life a lot easier for them, I think,” said Nick Blinderman, 26, a heroin user who lives in the camp.“I’ve never in my life seen anything like the drug use around here. It’s as common as like drinking a cup of coffee in the morning,” he said. “You find feces everywhere, in every trash can, all over the place.”

As we approach Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season, many of us will spend the coming days and weeks thinking about what we’re grateful for: family and friends, food and shelter, health and happiness. But across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of homeless people are struggling just to get by. A new series of one-minute PSAs from the New York City-based poverty organization Robin Hood Foundation aims to highlight their resilience.

Lelia Parker grew up on a farm in rural Virginia and moved to the U.S. capital 30 years ago, seeking a more urban environment. But she still gets the gardening itch. Down the street from her Southeast D.C. home is a community garden, where tidy beds of succulent zucchini, peppers and squash grow. The garden is operated by the nonprofit group DC UrbanGreens. Not long ago, Parker discovered the site and began telling her neighbors about it and about how to cook with fresh vegetables instead of canned. Now she’s a board member and the group’s outreach coordinator.

Gov. John Hickenlooper is proposing “aggressive” new efforts to address homelessness in Colorado, returning to an issue that helped launch his political career in his final two years in office. The governor’s budget request for fiscal year 2017-2018 asks lawmakers to put $12.3 million in annual marijuana tax revenues toward building new housing units for people who experience chronic and episodic homelessness. His plan also includes another $6 million a year for housing for low-income residents and others with behavioral health needs.

Much ado has been made over President-elect Donald Trump’s overwhelming success in courting rural American voters during his run for the White House. Trump’s election-night dominance in middle America has pushed the narrative that forgotten and economically eroding corners of the country turned out en masse to reject establishment politics and the liberal ideals more prominent in the country’s major cities. And, indeed, the steady decline of rural and exurban communities has been well documented in recent years.

Poverty was one of the forgotten issues on the campaign trail this election season. Now, many who work with the nation’s poor worry that it will be even more forgotten under a Trump administration and the new Republican Congress. Mariana Chilton, who runs the Center for Hunger Free Communities at Drexel University, doesn’t remember Donald Trump saying much about poor people during the presidential campaign, but she does remember a comment he made about a protester who was being removed from one of his rallies.

Homelessness in the U.S. declined in 2016 by nearly 3% from the previous year, new federal data shows, though some states, including California, Washington, Colorado and Oklahoma, as well as the District of Columbia, bucked that trend with notable increases. The nationwide homeless population was 549,928, compared with 564,708 in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual report to Congress, which was publicly released Thursday. The annual report tracks the number of people sleeping in shelters and streets across the U.S. on one given night each year.

A common argument against low-income housing in well-off areas is the fear from these wealthy residents that their property values would drop because of their new neighbors. This was one of the persistent arguments that have helped keep affordable, subsidized housing projects out of Houston’s high opportunity neighborhoods over the decades, including the contentious fight over a Houston Housing Authority complex planned in a neighborhood in between the Galleria and Tanglewood this year.

A grocery store in northwest Detroit, where 70 percent of customers utilize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps. A historic former commercial garage in North Philadelphia turned into mixed-income housing, small business incubator space and a high-quality childcare facility. A brand-new northeast Washington, D.C., building where 300 adult students annually will receive job training, 30 homeless and low-income families will have affordable housing, an additional 172 homeless and low-income individuals will have affordable housing, and 10,000 women and children per year will have comprehensive medical and dental care.