Oakland Parcel Tax For Parks, Homeless Services Narrowly Ahead
An Oakland measure that would raise $21 million annually for parks maintenance, homeless services and water quality improvements was slightly above the two-thirds majority it needs.
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An Oakland measure that would raise $21 million annually for parks maintenance, homeless services and water quality improvements was slightly above the two-thirds majority it needs.
San Francisco supervisors Tuesday approved the lease on an approximately 200-bed SAFE Navigation Center in the Upper Market area of the city.
Health officials all around the world are struggling to keep the Coronavirus contained. But there is one group of people that would pose an even tougher challenge if the virus should invade their ranks: the homeless.
San Francisco is moving ahead with two new homeless navigation centers, including a temporary center which will eventually be converted into a housing development.
Police in the East Bay on Tuesday arrested a male suspect in the beating death of another man at a homeless camp in Oakland shortly after noon, authorities said.
Two suspects allegedly taunted and intentionally struck two homeless people with their vehicle in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury District late Monday night before targeting a police car and slamming into it several blocks away, authorities said.
Bay Area mayors called for increased state funding with a focus on housing production to help address the homelessness in the region and throughout the state, during a California State Assembly subcommittee hearing on Thursday.
A Bay Area photographer has given away thousands of free headshots to homeless clients and she says the project hasn't only changed her life, but has also helped her subjects see themselves in a different light.
It has been one week since Sonoma County closed down Joe Rodota Trail, the site of the largest homeless encampment in county history. Hundreds of campers were dispersed.
The mayor of Tracy, just outside the Bay Area, is facing scrutiny after suggesting the solution to his city's homeless problem is to bus homeless people to Stockton
Officials in Fremont began cracking down on people living in trailers and RVs along a frontage road next to Interstate 880 Thursday.
Three-term Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane and former Santa Rosa City Councilman and Mayor Chris Coursey are running in the March 3 primary election for the District 3 seat on the county's Board of Supervisors.
Could trailers be a new temporary fix for California's growing homelessness crisis? Some people tell KPIX one local company offered them deals that were too good to be true.
Wednesday was the day Sonoma County said it would begin removing the homeless encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail in Santa Rosa. But that still leaves the biggest problem unsolved.
The city of Oakland opened its seventh community cabin site Thursday for those who live in the Chinatown and Jack London neighborhoods.
On Monday, Sonoma County will start relocating some of the massive homeless encampment on the edge of Santa Rosa.
The Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night to direct City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley to develop an emergency shelter somewhere in the city to try to ease the city's homeless crisis.
At Sonoma County's Los Guilicos campus, construction on the emergency outdoor shelter is well underway. It is a plan that has a lot of neighbors very upset.
Calling California's homeless crisis a public health issue, hospital giant Kaiser Permanente on Friday pledged $25 million to a new state fund aimed at getting people off the streets.
Advocates for the homeless say a decision approved by the San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday to scale back the number of police officers who respond to calls about homeless people will help advance the goals of a new campaign they launched this week.
Fewer San Francisco police may be responding to calls about the homeless following the passing of a resolution Wednesday evening by the city's police commission.
A new SAFE Navigation Center in San Francisco's Upper Market Area announced Wednesday will help Mayor London Breed accomplish her goal of opening 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020.
After their Tuesday afternoon release from jail, the two homeless mothers arrested during the early Tuesday morning eviction of the group Moms 4 Housing said they would return to the West Oakland home for what they called a "celebration."
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning unanimously approved buying two multi-unit residences that will provide temporary, shared rental housing.
Gov. Gavin Newsom began a week-long statewide tour Monday promoting his $1 billion effort to address one of California's most pressing and politically fraught problems — its growing homeless crisis.
