As communities across the Bay Area continue to grapple with jarring scenes of human suffering on the street, counties in the region are rolling out new state-mandated mental health courts …
Erik Soliván, San Jose’s new housing director, has a big job ahead of him. In addition to overseeing the city’s efforts to alleviate its chronic housing shortage, Soliván has been …
San Diego has finished pulling more than 155,000 pounds of debris out of just one prominent riverbed encampment, illustrating how complex and expensive responding to homelessness can be when it’s …
There’s a couch, a keyboard and a washing machine. You can count two widescreen TVs, a dozen pieces of luggage and who knows how many bicycles. Don’t forget the three-story …
ANTIOCH — Every Wednesday, Nichole Latrese Gardner drives her green minibus to the Amtrak station at around 5:30 p.m. where she is greeted by a group of people she proudly …
It’s difficult to say whether Delmar Dreaming Bear struggles more asleep or awake. Some nights he dreams that the ground is about to swallow him. Other nightmares feature killers in …
A public-private partnership that aims to transform the Pacific Motor Inn in San Jose’s SoFA District into a mixed-income community has completed its first phase of converting the motel into …
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan wants you to know that Proposition 36 is about more than just cracking down on retail crime. Mahan — one of the statewide ballot measure’s …
Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom sought unsuccessfully to cut a $1 billion program to help local governments combat homelessness, the governor on Tuesday touted the latest round of funding from …
A judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked further efforts by state officials to clear homeless encampments in New Orleans — stalling a push that came ahead of three Taylor Swift …