In recent months, major cities including San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Fresno and Los Angeles have significantly ...

CARE Court is intended to get the state’s most mentally ill people into help and housing but has fallen short of enrollment expectations.

Senate Bill 634 would hold cities accountable for addressing homelessness by preventing them from banning supportive services ...

Supervisor Matt Dorsey on Tuesday is expected to introduce proposals to help San Francisco open sober housing sites for the ...

Experts worry liberal California will be blacklisted from federal homelessness dollars, effectively counteracting recent progress.

The moves by President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom reflect a yearslong shift in California politics and across the ...

A startling trend has hit Santa Clara County over the past two years — more people have fallen into homelessness for the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom convened a new statewide task force to prioritize and remove homeless encampments and bring services and shelter to homeless people in California’s ten largest cities. Those cities ...

California counties are reporting decreases in homelessness, suggesting the state is finally making progress in solving one of its most difficult and persistent problems. But even as Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

As California spends unprecedented billions of dollars to bring homeless people off the street, state lawmakers quietly approved new rules this summer requiring local governments to complete annual ...

Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 255, which would have allowed state funding for abstinence-based recovery housing ...

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