Bay Area homelessness

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) Monday, bringing the city's total to 13 confirmed cases.

San Francisco supervisors Tuesday approved the lease on an approximately 200-bed SAFE Navigation Center in the Upper Market area of the city, the mayor's office said. 

It's been years in the making and now San Jose's first tiny home community officially opened on Thursday, complete with security and resident services. 

Neighbors have been posting their concerns about Jane Warner Plaza saying an influx of homeless is intimidating visitors and hurting business.

For nearly four decades, Ariel Outreach Mission in Oakland has helped people and families struggling with housing insecurity find a permenant place to call home.

San Francisco opened a new homeless shelter on Monday dedicated to pregnant women and mothers. 

Not far from the bright city lights, people without stable housing are sleeping wherever they can.

For years, San Jose and Santa Clara County have struggled with helping and preventing homelessness. Thursday, government officials, along with nonprofit executives gathered to tout the success of the county’s Homelessness Prevention System, or HPS.

Wine country is not exempt from homeless issues. 

Firefighters ran into an obstacle when responding to a homeless encampment fire along the Union Pacific Railroad in Oakland Monday night. 

A new study shows that homelessness is now the number one concern for people living in San Francisco. As recently as last year the number one issue was housing affordability.

The First Presbyterian Church of Hayward set aside the land, local leaders worked to adjust the zoning laws, the non-profit group, Home-Aid, Northern California and local builders and contractors worked together to make the program happen. 

Gov. Newsom's proposal “falls short of articulating a clear strategy for curbing homelessness in California" by shifting decision-making authority away from local governments that have historically handled the bulk of homeless services in the state, the LAO wrote in a report

A new homeless camp is attracting attention in Santa Rosa, only a few miles from the one that was forcibly cleared just a week ago. 

The city says the goal is to keep people from parking there, especially the homeless. 

City officials say there have been too many concerns about property damage, traffic, safety and trash.