Coalition of California mayors seek $20B from state to battle homelessness
Mayors from California's biggest cities have banded together asking state leaders for $20 billion to combat homelessness.
San Jose veteran gifted apartment, one-year free rent after experiencing homelessness
Life just changed for homeless veteran Ana Espitia and her emotional support dog Harley after she was gifted an apartment with a year of free rent.
Berkeley OKs spending $53M on affordable housing projects at BART stations
The Berkeley city council voted to spend $53 million to develop hundreds of new affordable homes at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations.
Livermore City Council to consider expelling commissioner over 'ghetto' remarks
The Livermore City Council will consider expelling John Stein from the city's planning commission, after the former council member referred to a planned downtown low-income housing project as "ghetto" at the commission's April 20 meeting.
Oakland: Homeless services audit find city not prepared to deal with crisis
An audit of homeless services in Oakland found that a team charged with closing and cleaning homeless encampments was not adequately prepared to deal with the problem and lacked an efficient strategy for dealing with the growth of the camps.
San Jose City Council votes to resume sweeping homeless encampments
The San Jose City Council voted this week to immediately resume pre-pandemic homeless encampment management and abatement procedures, as well as explore the idea of sanctioned encampments.
Oakland to consider rezoning areas for apartment buildings
The Oakland City Council will debate a rezoning measure that would allow small apartment buildings to be built in neighborhoods where right now, only single-family houses are permitted.
Hundreds of Fairfield apartments still sit empty a decade later
Governmental red tape has kept 300 affordable housing units standing as a ghost fleet of former military homes with no concrete plan forward.
Hope Solutions provides permanent housing to 2,000 people
Hope Solutions is a Contra Costa County-based non-profit that provides permanent housing solutions and services.
Berkeley ends more than 100-year-old single-family zoning policy
Berkeley was the first city in the country to enact single-family zoning more than 100 years ago. Opponents of single-family zoning say it was used to exclude people of color from moving into certain neighborhoods.
Santa Clara supes poised to OK $100M in housing for low-income residents
There are about 10,000 unhoused residents in Santa Clara County, according to county estimates. The five proposed complexes are all located in San Jose -- the city with the highest homelessness rates in the county.
Dorm-like structures proposed for San Jose's homeless near Guadalupe River
Unhoused residents who live in tents, vehicles, and shanties – sharing this space with debris, trash, and waste, fear they’ll be forced to leave.
Governor signs eviction moratorium extension in California
The move is risky because of two big unknowns: Is $2.6 billion enough to cover all of the unpaid rent in the state, and how many landlords will take the deal?
Corporate tax hike proposal would aid California homeless
A California coalition is proposing legislation to boost taxes on wealthy multinational corporations to raise more than $2 billion a year to house tens of thousands of homeless people.
Away from hospital, East Bay nurses volunteer with homeless
Two nurses treating COVID patients at John Muir hospital in Concord also worked with people that are homeless.
Housing advocates protest SF temporary homeless housing plan
Housing advocates are calling on the city to expand its shelter in place homeless housing program. Candese Charles reports.
Sonoma County converts former hotel into housing for homeless
The 31-room supportive housing complex, opening the week of Dec. 28, is the second of two acquired by the county through funds made available through the state's Project Homekey, county officials said.
Oakland completes conversion of 17 homes into residences for formerly unhoused
The city of Oakland and the housing nonprofit Bay Area Community Services announced the completion this week of the conversion of 17 residential homes that will be made available to previously unhoused residents.
FEMA to reimburse local governments participating in Project Roomkey for pandemic's duration
The governor's office announced Friday that FEMA will reimburse Project Roomkey's homeless shelter-in-place hotels at 75% of the cost share for the duration of the COVID-19 emergency.
San Mateo County supervisors approve purchase of two hotels to house homeless residents
During a special meeting Tuesday, county supervisors voted unanimously to complete the purchase.