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Many of the tens of thousands of evacuees in the Houston area are lower income. They can't easily afford to miss work for long periods or pay for a motel for weeks on end.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Gus Van Sant about his new film, Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot, which chronicles the fall and rise of cartoonist John Callahan.

The Charlotte Housing Authority requires that people who get housing subsidies work — and the program is considered a success story. But helping people become self-sufficient remains a challenge.

For Cairo, Ill., a former river port and manufacturing hub, economic troubles began with the decline in river trade. Now two more public housing buildings are scheduled to close.

Verónica G. Cárdenas tells the story behind her photos of the migrants traveling to the U.S.: "I want to show that indeed, it is a tiresome and dangerous journey, but along the way, life goes on."

Two weeks after parliamentary elections delivered a surprise win for allies of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's divided political leaders are scrambling to put together a coalition government.

The photos avoid war, destruction and poverty — and instead focus on the beauty and resilience of people who leave home in search of a better life.

There's now limited reconstruction in the territory that was badly damaged in the 2014 war with Israel. But it's very uneven, depending on factors like whether money comes from Qatar or Kuwait.

Terrorist attacks in Brussels killed at least 31 and wounded at least 270 on Tuesday. As the city mourns, police continue to search for a suspected accomplice.

"To walk for three or four hours without checkpoints, without seeing soldiers ... it makes you feel, somehow, you can feel some free," says a hiker. There are scores of Palestinian hiking clubs.