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With television cameras rolling and traffic on a busy San Fernando Valley freeway humming in the background, Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging California counties to implement a new law that makes it easier to appoint a conservator to direct...

A homeless individual lives in an old RV that sits in the Mojave desert, near Lancaster, Calif., on July 10, 2024. (John Fredricks/The...

The directive from Gov. Gavin Newsom is the nation’s most sweeping response to a Supreme Court decision last month that gave local...

FOLSOM, Calif. — K.C. Alvey treads carefully when she and her dog, Stuart, walk the dappled trail behind their apartment in Folsom,...

The Board of Supervisors today approved the $143 million development of a 96-bed mental-health treatment facility at Los Angeles General...

A homeless man sleeps on a Metro bus bench at 8th and Alvarado streets in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. A community group found...

Thomas Richardson, left, and cousin Tatayana Noles, right, gather up belongings in a tent encampment at 86th Street and Broadway on...

Demetric Woodard, a case manager with PATH’s early morning Metro outreach team, approaches Cedrick Cosey and Marlow Johnson outside the...

Likely to have broad ramifications throughout the West, the court found an Oregon city’s penalties did not violate the Constitution’s...

The reactions were swift. The City Council reacted in disbelief and demanded answers. Council president Paul Krekorian was outraged. For...

In a 2006 New Yorker article, “Million-Dollar Murray,” author Malcolm Gladwell told the story of Murray Barr, an alcoholic who had spent...

2024 homeless count results will be released June 28, shedding light on push to house Angelenos The city and county of Los Angeles made...

Executives at a development company that received $121 million in taxpayer funds through Project Homekey are accused of running a “real...

Programs are sprouting across the country to provide nursing home and rehabilitation services to homeless people who would otherwise...

The Homeless Industrial Complex has obtained enough signatures to place the Affordable Housing, Homeless Solutions and Prevention Now...

“If you want a friend you can trust, get a dog”. -Harry S Truman Sacramento just released the results of its most recent Point in Time...

IN SUMMARY Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat...

It’s been six months since Los Angeles County launched a new program aimed at getting more people with serious mental illness into...

A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as...

Paul Webster is Executive Director of the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights and Founder and Director the Hope Street Coalition, with...

If you’ve been following the news lately, a few stories about homelessness may have caught your eye. The County released the latest...

He was ensnared in Ithaca’s homeless encampment. Then, in a blur of violence, he was gone The sprawling homeless encampment behind a...

Hans Christian Anderson wrote a folk tale about an emperor who is obsessed with fancy new clothes, and spent lavishly on them at the...

An NBC4 I-Team investigation finds some fires are apparently started when the homeless tap into city electrical wires to bring power to...

Neighborhoods from Imperial to Del Norte Counties resemble third world war zones — What is it going to take? It was supposed to be...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released a report on Thursday highlighting that drug and alcohol overdoses continue to...

In May 2024, Los Angeles is grappling with a significant public health crisis: an outbreak of Hepatitis A among the homeless population....

Californians for Safer Communities Coalition announced Thursday in Culver City it will submit over 900,000 voter signatures to qualify...

Useful it may be. User-friendly or transparent it’s not. That’s the judgment of a 10-page report card on the website mounted by the city...

Can the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act rein in the state’s property crime and drug problems? Congressman Kevin...

Most people know the definition of the word bedlam; a scene of confusion, panic and hysteria. The word is derived from an old English...

Most of my columns focus on the numbers and costs of homelessness policy.  I believe if you present facts and figures in their proper...

In summary A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative...

The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest case about homelessness in decades, and it seems like everyone in California has an...

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. "What if there is a bed...

The City continues to add data to its new homelessness program website; one of the latest additions are reports and billings for the Safe...

Siyamak sits down with Mark Ryavec, president of the Venice Stakeholders Association, who served as a municipal staffer for the LA City...

The Supreme Court is poised to hear its most important case ever on the homelessness crisis, and to decide whether cities in California...

A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of courts wading into the thorny policy questions around when local governments can punish...

California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit...

In summary Public agencies are funding private security guards in homeless shelters and on the street, opening a new front in the state’s...

California is not doing enough to track and evaluate efforts to address homelessness — despite billions of dollars spent to address the...

Following the City of Los Angeles' weekly cleanup operation at Lincoln and Rose Avenue, Ghost Town Management has been instrumental in...

"Malibu hasn't done anything for the homeless," says Elvin Rudolph Dekle, 69, who spends most of his days in Legacy Park. The city, which...