Family living with 7-year-old in San Jose homeless encampment
Each morning before school, Dimmi wakes up in a green tent by the railroad tracks that bisect South San Jose. The 7-year-old wriggles out of a lime green sleeping bag, …
Homelessness
County’s plan to turn San Jose-owned tiny home site in jail diversion delayed
A Santa Clara County plan to buy San Jose-owned interim housing sites near Bernal and Monterey roads for a jail diversion program has run into intense backlash from nearby residents, …
Alameda County gets $14 million to address mental health and homelessness
Alameda County Health (AC Health) was recently awarded $14 million to fund temporary housing services to alleviate homelessness among people struggling with behavioral health conditions. The $14,040,909 grant comes from …
San Jose could model safe sleeping sites off of San Diego program
The success of another major California city’s safe sleeping program could provide a blueprint for how San Jose approaches its sanctioned encampment sites. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said he …
How Bay Area cities are responding to Newsom’s calls for ramping up homeless sweeps
After the U.S. Supreme Court granted cities broad new authority to clear homeless camps last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom had a clear message for local officials: no more excuses. Newsom, …
Newsom tries shifting homelessness blame to local officials
Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom donned blue jeans and a t-shirt to participate in a well-choreographed cleanup of a squalid encampment in Los Angeles, declaring that homelessness is the “biggest scar on the …
These Bay Area cities are getting $43 million from the state for homeless housing
Bay Area cities and counties are getting $43 million in state funding for four planned homeless housing projects totaling 138 units, California officials announced Wednesday. San Mateo County, Richmond, San …
Witnesses detail Union City homicide by railroad tracks
DUBLIN — Eyewitnesses took the stand and revealed the motive behind a 2023 fatal beating and strangulation on the Union City railroad tracks, allegedly committed by a man who was …
Homelessness advocate arrested in trying to stall ‘unlawful’ sweep
Early Wednesday, state law enforcement showed up to clear a homeless encampment on Caltrans land beneath Interstate 580 in Oakland — only to find that they were blocked from entering: …
Newsom’s anti-camping push repeats California’s mistakes
“I’ve been looking for you.” These were the words that haunted me during the more than two decades I spent living on the streets of Los Angeles, from 1977 to …