Homelessness

Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places.

Experts predict funding cuts and policy changes. But Trump and Newsom appear to agree on encampment sweeps.

After a “chaotic” start, LA’s effort to clear homeless camps is making progress. But problems remain.

In Los Angeles County, where more than 75,000 people have nowhere to call home, voters will decide whether to tax themselves to help get people off the street.

Homeless service providers are scaling back and taking out loans as they wait for late payments from the government.

Lea esta historia en Español Whose fault is the California homelessness crisis?  According to Gov. Gavin Newsom, cities and counties are to blame for failing to get people off the street — despite all the money he’s given them to do so. That was the message the governor pushed today as he signed a package […]

More than two-dozen California cities passed, strengthened or are considering ordinances that penalize people for sleeping outside, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed cities to crack down.

Homelessness increased again in California this year. But experts are raising questions about the data.

After reports of shelter deaths and assaults, officials grappling with the state’s biggest homeless crisis have denied repeated requests for incident reports created by government contractors.

Lea esta historia en Español When the Supreme Court and then Gov. Gavin Newsom gave the green-light to crack down on homeless encampments this summer, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass loudly took issue with that approach — setting herself apart from other big-city leaders. But despite Bass’ public stance against it, and her efforts to […]