California cities lack unified response on homeless encampments
Clearing an encampment is one of the most complicated and fraught tasks any California city can take on when responding to homelessness.
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Homelessness is top of mind for many Californians. Why does the proposed budget eliminate funding for it?
State leaders have been talking a lot lately about cleaning up California’s homeless encampments and moving people indoors. But the tentative budget they’ve drawn up for the upcoming year has...
‘Millions out on the street virtually overnight’: How Trump’s budget proposal could affect California
In California, millions are served by these funds and state and local governments depend on them to operate affordable housing, rental assistance, homeless service, planning and legal programs.
A new program trains college students for jobs helping homeless Californians, can it survive?
With more than 187,000 people sleeping on California’s streets and in its shelters, the state’s homeless services industry is struggling to hire enough qualified workers to help them.
‘Look, there’s nowhere else to go:’ Inside California’s crackdown on homeless camps
It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed how cities in California and beyond can respond to homeless encampments, allowing them to clear camps and arrest people for sleeping...
Should ‘aiding’ or ‘abetting’ a homeless camp be illegal? It might soon be a reality in this Bay Area city
As communities up and down California ban homeless encampments, one Bay Area city is trying to go a step further.
Federal health care dollars are helping to house homeless Californians. Trump could stop that
Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unveiled a new plan to help solve the homelessness crisis: It began using health care providers, funded through Medi-Cal, to help people get...
Busing people out of homelessness: How California’s relocation programs really work
Mayor London Breed, outgoing mayor of San Francisco, made waves recently with a major policy shift: Before providing a shelter bed or any other services, city workers must first offer...
One issue Trump and Newsom agree on? Homeless encampments
Experts predict funding cuts and policy changes. But Trump and Newsom appear to agree on encampment sweeps.
What happens to homeless people after encampment sweeps? That’s on cities, Gavin Newsom says
Whose fault is the California homelessness crisis?
