Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time Shawn Dunning returned to the U.S. after living abroad for two decades, he was nearly bankrupt. All his family members ...

Lillian Craw in her studio apartment in Westbrook in February. Craw was homeless for about four years, living mostly in motels until August 2023. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Lillian Craw loves ...

Dunning, 54, spent nights on the street, in shelters, in hospitals, on friends’ couches and in a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he said he saw neighbors carted out in body bags.