Are Hotels the Solution to Homelessness?
By Daniel Polansky May 29, 2020 — Dale lies dying on an island in the Los Angeles River. Beneath a haggard tent in a sandy encampment, a quarter-mile from a vegan takeout restaurant and several…
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Homeless During the Pandemic
By Susan Landry May 29, 2020 — Living in a truck is never easy, but lately, it’s been especially tough, said Brian Bryson, who’s called his 2005 Ford Ranger home for the last two years….
LGBTQ Individuals More Likely Than Others to Face Housing Instability
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…
San Diego Police Increase Ticketing Of The Homeless During The Pandemic
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…
San Francisco Homeless Deaths Soar — and Officials Say It’s Not Directly Due to COVID-19
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…
Trump Administration Yanks Approval for Homeless Shelters in Sacramento, Across California
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…
Will California Guarantee Housing as a Right? Here’s How the Pandemic Is Shaping the Debate
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…
California Cities Are Building ‘Sanctioned’ Homeless Encampments. Here’s What That Looks Like.
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…
California Leased 15,000 Hotel Rooms to Help Homeless People. Half Now Sit Empty
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…
How The Streets Got So Mean
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…
Coronavirus Exposes the Inextricable Connection Between Housing and Health
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….
San Diego County: Homeless Residents Around the County Confront Lack of Shelter, Resources
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…
Housing, Homelessness Funds Mostly Spared in Proposed Budget Cuts
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….
San Francisco Opens First Sanctioned Homeless Encampment
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…
With Homeless Camps Resurgent Across Santa Rosa, City Prepares to Open One of its Own
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…
7,000 California Homeless Quarantine in Hotels, More Rooms Needed
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…
Homeless Perspective Weekly Update #5
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…
Report: Coronavirus Crisis Could Leave Tens of Thousands of Californians 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…
“Pets In Need Project” Delivers Free Care, Supplies to Homeless and Vulnerable Pets
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…
Proposal Would Create Tent Cities for Homeless Veterans in VA Parking Lots
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…
