A new law is meant to help local governments speed up the building and placement of small, portable houses.
Following the money reveals the gaming of the state’s initiative process.
Despite reductions to housing and antipoverty programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom maintains Medi-Cal funding.
An ambitious pilot program provides a myriad of resources to help participants achieve financial independence through stable employment.
Despite transparency concerns, the state auditor’s report says two programs focusing on housing and preventing homelessness are cost-effective.
Since Joanne Erickson lost her apartment, volunteers, housing groups and government representatives have tried — and failed — to find her a home. Her story shows how seniors are falling through our social safety net.
Joanne Marie Erickson, battling post-polio syndrome, grapples with the looming threat of homelessness.
Twenty-one hotels have been cited so far. If the citations are enforced and upheld in court, hundreds of rooms could be turned back into low-cost permanent housing for the city’s poorest residents.
A 2008 city law intended hotels used as primary residences to be preserved as safety-net housing. But with little enforcement, some landlords had turned their buildings into tourist hotels.
The city of Calexico has few resources for the homeless, leaving individuals to survive by scavenging shade and relying on the goodwill of nonprofits.
When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.
Following a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation, which found that buildings meant for housing are instead being rented to tourists, the mayor’s office asked for a review.
Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.
Fast food industry contributes to homelessness in California, says new report.
Oakland is clearing out what was once the city’s largest unhoused community.
Since January, the city has cleared nearly 600 encampments.
With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their heads?
Manuel Pastor, professor and equity advocate, says while staking her political capital on showing tangible progress, Bass must also address other daunting challenges.
Sarah Fay, 28, is among the millions of Americans in precarious housing situations, sometimes on the brink of homelessness. She gave photographer Barbara Davidson, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, deep access to her life to capture these scenes.
The clock is ticking on Sarah Fay’s precarious living situation. What will she do?