By: Joe Colletti, PhD January 11, 2021 — First round Homekey funding was awarded to eligible applicantsin approximately half of California’s 58 counties Second round Homekey funding would provide another opportunityfor eligible applicants to receive…
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By: Natalie Hanson January 3, 2021 — CHICO, CA — It has been several weeks since Chico’s City Council and city staff approved harsher punishments for camping in parks. As the new year begins, many people unhoused…
By: Joseph Giovannini December 27, 2020 — IN A ZOOM CONFERENCE three weeks ago, sponsored by Harvard’s Graduate School of Design Alumni Council, Leilani Farha, a Toronto-based housing rights advocate, brought the deep pain of…
By: Lisa Halverstadt December 28, 2020 — Leaders tasked with executing the city’s plan to address the homelessness crisis say the coronavirus pandemic in some ways helped advance certain goals. But on other key metrics,…
By: Nigel Duara December 28, 2020 — IN SUMMARY The coastal community was called out in a state audit as one of many troubling flaws contributing to California’s affordable housing crisis. Researchers say a statewide…
By: Lindsey Holden December 26, 2020 — Paso Robles homeless residents have long struggled without a permanent place to seek shelter — but that changed this month. About two-and-a-half weeks ago, the El Camino Homeless…
By Genevieve Richards December 28, 2020 — Americans want government intervention with homelessness. So why hasn’t there been any? As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens and we welcome a new administration, homelessness hasn’t seemed to be…
By Angelaydet Rocha December 26, 2020 — Thirty-five percent of students enrolled in The North Monterey County Unified School District (NMCUSD) are homeless or foster students, according to district officials. These students are living in…
By: Joe Colletti December 15, 2020 Homelessness is much more than the absence of physical housing;it is a tension-filled, trauma-filled, and treacherous conditionthat too often results in injuries and fatalities. NOTE: Monday, December 21st, marks the…
By: Joe Colletti PhD December 7, 2020 — Local Homeless Management Information Systems are crucial tothe success of State of California’s Soon to Be ImplementedHomeless Data Information System (HDIS) Annual state funding should augment HUD’s annual…
By: Marisa Kendall November 27, 2020 — As Bay Area communities struggle to safely shelter their unhoused residents during a global pandemic, many have reached the same conclusion: Sometimes, smaller is better. With homelessness soaring,…
By: Sarah Parvini November 26, 2020 — California Highway Patrol officers forcibly removed people who had “reclaimed” vacant, publicly owned homes in El Sereno late Wednesday — the night before Thanksgiving — amid a surge…
By: Bryant-Jon Anteola November 26, 2020 — Who would’ve known recording homeless people in Fresno would lead to viral videos? That certainly wasn’t the intention of Akram Mohsin, manager of the Tower Gas & Mini…
By: Alicia Robinson November 26, 2020 — Anaheim officials plan to lower rents at 1,017 apartments to create affordable “workforce housing,” using to a new state program that aims to plug a hole in the…
By: Guy McCarthy November 23, 2020 — A Caltrans District 10 road work supervisor in Jamestown sent an excavator driver to remove tons of trash Thursday collected by homeless campers on the south side of…
By: Ethan Baron November 22, 2020 — The nation’s most populous state is heading into the weekend facing its most serious coronavirus restrictions since its stay-at-home order in this spring. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom has ordered…
By: Tim Houchen November 22, 2020 — On Wednesday, staff members from the City of Anaheim Housing Authority and Community Development Department presented an overview of affordable housing in the city to members of the…
By: Theresa Clift November 14, 2020 — A controversial plan to convert a River District hotel into housing for the homeless has been nixed. Sacramento had scored funding from a competitive state program called Project…
By: Jennifer Huffman November 14, 2020 — On Wednesday morning, the bulldozer arrived. Workers, some wearing white plastic suits and masks, gathered debris to be scooped into the dozer’s bucket. Driving up out of the…
By: Tim Houchen November 14, 2020 — WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Originally, our Memorial Wall was designed in 2016 to fit 240 names of people that passed away during the year while experiencing homelessness. The…
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