By Lainey Millen May 29, 2020 — LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A report by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law examines challenges facing LGBTQ individuals in accessing affordable…
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By Cody Delaney May 26, 2020 — During the coronavirus pandemic, San Diego police have issued more than twice as many tickets for illegal lodging — an infraction largely directed at homeless people — compared…
By Trisha Thadani May 26, 2020 — The number of homeless people in San Francisco who died over a recent eight-week period spiked compared to the same time last year, an increase that officials say…
By Theresa Clift May 22, 2020 — The Trump administration has yanked approval for major homeless shelter projects it previously approved in Sacramento and San Francisco. The move undermines a critical component of Gov. Gavin…
By Molly Solomon May 22, 2020 — California’s housing crisis is driving state lawmakers to think big. One question they’re considering: How can the Golden State guarantee housing as a right? This week, state legislators looked at…
By Emma Ockerman May 19, 2020 — At least two California cities are now building their own open-air tent encampments for the homeless, putting on stark display the state’s present inability to safely get people…
By Doug Smith and Benjamin Oreskes May 19, 2020 — Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus…
By Mimi Kirk May 18, 2020 — When Don Mitchell was a master’s student in geography at Penn State in the late 1980s, he came across a newspaper article on homelessness that struck him. Homelessness…
By Brooks Rainwater and Lauren Lowery May 18, 2020 — We have heard for too long that there is no true solution to homelessness, with excuse after excuse on why we just can’t do it….
By Lisa Halverstadt and Kayla Jimenez May 18, 2020 — Weeks ago, San Diego city officials scrambled to convert the Convention Center into a temporary shelter to protect homeless San Diegans vulnerable to coronavirus. About…
By Matt Levin May 18, 2020 — With a forecasted deficit of near-record proportions and an economy in freefall, homelessness and low-income housing advocates were braced for painful cuts in the revised budget proposal Gov….
By Lauren Edmonds, Ralph Ortega and Matthew Wright May 18, 2020 — San Francisco has opened its first sanctioned camp site that can house 50 homeless residents this week as locals complain of makeshift tents clogging…
By Will Shmitt May 18, 2020 — It’s taken a pandemic to do it, but Santa Rosa this month is slated to dramatically ramp up its response to the local homelessness crisis by opening its…
By Christopher Weber and Janie Har May 17, 2020 — LOS ANGELES — Anxiety mounted every time someone at the homeless shelter sneezed or residents got too close. For Matthew Padilla, a 34-year-old with a…
By Tim Houchen May 17, 2020 — Please view the video below Click on the video above! This week’s news stories — The Economic Effects From Coronavirus May Cause 30,000 More Californian’s To Become Homeless…
By Marisa Kendall May 15, 2020 — Nearly 30,000 Californians could end up homeless in the midst of the unprecedented COVID-19 economic crisis, according to a new report — a potentially catastrophic spike for a…
By ACCESSWIRE May 14, 2020 — Science-focused pet CBD+CBDA company ElleVet Sciences is teaming up with LA-based, holistic housecall veterinarian Dr. Patrick Mahaney to launch the “Pets In Need Project,” a relief mission designed to provide much-needed veterinary care…
By Richard Sisk May 13, 2020 — Tent cities for homeless veterans would go up in Department of Veterans Affairs hospital parking lots under a proposal included in a massive COVID-19 aid bill offered up this week by House…
By Tim Houchen May 13, 2020 — Every month for the past two years, Father Dennis Kriz has published a list of those persons that died without homes in the previous month and he presides…
By Tim Houchen May 11, 2020 — On March 15, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom first announced the state’s intention to provide motel/hotel rooms and trailers for persons experiencing homelessness for the most vulnerable and at-risk…
