"No Address" film about homeless crisis produced in Placer County
A documentary feature film about the homeless crisis was produced in Placer County.
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A documentary feature film about the homeless crisis was produced in Placer County.
After New York City announced an initiative that would give city agencies more leeway to involuntarily hospitalize mentally ill people, even if they do not pose an immediate danger, San Francisco could be following suit.
Sacramento city and county leaders had been at odds in the past over who was responsible for providing shelter and counseling to the homeless. Now, Tuesday's action legally requires them to work together.
Big Lots is raising big concerns in Citrus Heights as word got out that the store is closing up shop.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to release $1 billion in state homelessness funding he testily put on pause earlier this month, but only if local governments agree to step up the aggressiveness of their plans going forward to reduce the number of unhoused people in the state, his office said Friday.
Firefighters doused a blaze that spread in a homeless camp off Highway 50 in Placerville Thursday morning.
"Help us, don't police us." That is the message from dozens of homeless community members who are asking not to be removed from a city parking lot that was originally intended to help them.
Sacramento voters will sound off on Election Day on a business-backed ballot measure to address the city's growing homelessness crisis.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that he will be pausing the latest round of state funding that was aimed to try and fight homelessness.
A singed sidewalk, blackened tree trunk and all the other burned leftovers in Sacramento's Alkali Flat neighborhood have Francine Jackson worried and fired up.
Residents in a south Sacramento neighborhood say they are fed up with the homeless population at a community park. They say the homeless are holding the park hostage and families are now afraid to go there.
Chris Guptill took a CBS13 crew to see the mess he cleans up along the river time and again, but what he discovered recently raised a new red flag. Guptill discovered homeless setting up shelters by digging caves into the embankment.
The Watt Avenue property sits on a total of more than 13 acres, complete with a 130,000-square-foot warehouse and approximately 9 acres of enclosed parking. One day, it could house several hundred homeless community members as they seek more permanent housing.
The cost of doing business near Stockton Boulevard and Fruitridge Road comes with damage, theft and safety concerns.
The Sacramento city council will vote this week on a $15 million plan to increase affordable housing in the city. The plan includes funding for the Gateway Project on Stockton Boulevard.
City council members in Sacramento have voted to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of any K-12 school.
For the first time since the pandemic began, staff from Sacramento County's elections agency set up tables Thursday at Loaves and Fishes.
Vice Mayor Angelique Ashby unveiled the new housing project called "Vista Nueva," in what used to be a Staybridge Suites.
The City of Sacramento is shutting down alleyways as it looks for ways to reduce crime.
Between a rock and a hard place: Sacramento property owners put out large boulders to keep homeless camps out
With a serial killer on the loose in Stockton whose victims include homeless people, those living on the streets are the most vulnerable.
A new public opinion poll focused on livability shows that 69 percent of residents living in six neighboring counties are most concerned about homelessness. The counties include Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba.
A new poll shows a staggering percentage of people living in the capital region struggle to make ends meet.
The week after an unhoused man was arrested near Sutter Middle School in Sacramento for making sexual gestures towards students who were off-campus walking to school and banging on car windows nearby, Sacramento's vice mayor introduced an amendment to an ordinance for a 500-foot buffer around schools.
City leaders and other agencies were on hand as the front doors opened at the new Auburn Boulevard outreach and engagement center for the homeless. There are dorm rooms with mats and recliners for up to 50 people. The program service director says it is not meant to provide long-term housing or shelter. It opens to the public Thursday.
