OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Sacramento teen Heaven’Le James’ fight to overcome mental health challenges illustrates an increasingly common struggle for Black youth.

The Black Hair and Hygiene Project has been distributing products to the unhoused community in Sacramento. The organization ...

There’s one thing L.A. officials all agree on, and that’s the need for higher taxes to pay for homelessness programs.

The federal government may have been more committed to housing during Carter’s one term, 1977-81, but homeownership was also ...

Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones (R-San Diego) released the following statement in response to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, ...

Dr. Ryan Quist is the Sacramento County behavioral health director. He's now in charge of expanding the county's criteria for involuntary detention and treatment to include patients with severe ...

The county introduces its new Behavioral Health Services-Screening and Coordination Call Center and implementation of Senate Bill 43.

“Americans with No Address,” the locally produced documentary that explores the nation’s homelessness crisis and laid the ...

PORTLAND — Fentanyl fueled a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual county report released Friday that officials ...

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, created by the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County to deal with homelessness, has an $875 million budget. Last month, the county’s auditor ...

“What my primary interest is as a County Commissioner and as a steward of the taxpayers money is that we don’t spend more money on the homeless. We have been spending a lot of money on trying ...