Some funding for the Office of Homelessness Solutions will come from a half-cent county sales tax that took effect in April.

A Democratic councilmember in Oakland says he has a moral duty to address the city's homelessness crisis as housing advocates ...

City officials scrutinized Councilmember Ken Houston’s plan to aggressively close encampments at an hours-long meeting.

Mayor Barbara Lee said Tuesday that money from county Measure W funds allocated to Oakland will go toward establishing the new office, though it was not immediately clear the timeframe by which the ...

College of the Siskiyous President Mark Fields spoke in front of the state Legislature opposing the bill. Weed, Calif., where the school is located, has average lows below freezing five months out of ...

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 ...

Advocates gathered at Oakland's City Hall on Monday to oppose Councilmember Ken Houston's new encampment abatement proposal. ...

The task force will target encampments on state rights-of-way in the state’s 10 largest cities, according to Gov. Gavin ...

In the fourth-largest economy in the world, Democrats seek to normalize poverty, turning parking lots into state-sanctioned ...

Downtown Streets Team, known for its homeless volunteers in bright yellow T-shirts who pick up trash along busy thoroughfares ...

Governor Gavin Newsom launches a new task force to address homelessness in California's largest cities, focusing on removing encampments and providing support.

San Jose is towing vehicles from different areas of the city in a new effort to rid the streets of lived-in vehicles. Last month, it started clearing its largest homeless encampment – a makeshift city ...