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Several city projects and programs are on the chopping block as officials struggle to close a massive deficit. -
Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients. -
The residents are part of a growing trend of unhoused people flocking to the riverbed and canyons in the wake of a camping ban. -
In California and other Western states, courts have ruled it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom said a state unit that enforces housing development plans of cities and counties will expand to oversee local spending on homelessness. -
Californians for Safer Communities Coalition announced today in San Diego it will submit over 900,000 voter signatures to qualify the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act for the November general election ballot. -
A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year. -
A new bill would make it illegal for homeless residents to camp in certain places, such as near schools, throughout California. Its authors say such a ban has had great success in San Diego. But a closer look at that city paints a more nuanced picture. -
A state audit has found that California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the spending actually helped alleviate the problem. -
There’s so little data available, it’s impossible to even tell if several of California’s largest homelessness programs are working, according to a statewide audit.
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