Birmingham City Councilor Hunter Williams is raising concerns with Urban Alchemy over a tent and sign the group used at a ...

A Birmingham city councilor is reacting to an obscenity used by a taxpayer funded group paid to help the homeless community ...

A city-funded organization in Birmingham is under fire after displaying obscene language at a local farmers market. Urban ...

Williams said that may be acceptable in San Francisco, where Urban Alchemy started, but it’s not appropriate for Birmingham. “I understand that they are a West Coast operation, they come from ...

To create a response team to work personally with the homeless, Birmingham signed a $1.7 million contract with San Francisco-based Urban Alchemy, which will run a team called Heart Birmingham.

Since December, Urban Alchemy’s Birmingham HEART street team has been on the ground helping homeless people, who have been very open to their approach. “We come, we are just natural people.

Joe Dudziak has wandered Santa Fe’s sidewalks, encampments and arroyos for the past six years, offering food, clothes, cold- and hot-weather gear and other resources to homeless residents. Through his ...