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Contra Costa County reported a 26% decline in homelessness from 2024, a remarkable drop, especially as most other parts of ...
Advocates are still split over the best way to help people who are homeless, as cities enforce public camping bans.
In major cities and more rural areas, arrests and citations rose in the months following last summer’s Supreme Court decision ...
The City of Oakland has cleared a large homeless encampment on East 12th Street, relocating about 70 people to the Mandela ...
This article is part of The Rooftop, a blog and multimedia series from New America’s Future of Land and Housing program. Featuring insights from experts across diverse fields, the series is a home for ...
Residents in Los Angeles are sounding the alarm over violent squatters and rising homelessness, pleading for urgent action.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and ...
I penned a My Turn entitled “Homeless Not Helpless” for the Juneau Empire. In that column, I defended then-Mayor Koelsch’s ...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A year after the U.S. Supreme Court granted cities more authority to clear homeless encampments, how much has ...
How can a place with no civil liberties feel, in some ways, freer and more orderly than American cities like San Francisco or ...