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Homeless youth in Santa Cruz County are about to get a much-needed hand up from the feds. The county is just one of 10 communities in the nation to qualify for a new grant program – a $2.2 million U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development grant.
A 30-year-old man has been arrested after he was confronted by bystanders while tossing a homeless man's belongings into Lake Merritt, an act captured on cellphone video.
Emotions ran high on social media Saturday after Facebook video showed a jogger tossing a homeless man's belonging into Oakland's Lake Merritt.
The online auction that raises money for the Glide Foundation's work to help the homeless in San Francisco ended Friday night on eBay with a winning bid falling just short of the previous record.
A Buffalo Wild Wings in Louisiana is stepping up to help the local homeless after one of their servers allegedly left a vulgar note on a customer's receipt.
People living in their vehicles at the Berkeley Marina left Marina Boulevard when ordered to do so by police Sunday morning, one of the vehicle dwellers said.
A San Francisco program that helps the severely mentally ill stay off the street by housing them in small group homes is quietly disappearing, taking away a vital safety net that no one seems to be trying to save.
Billionaire Warren Buffett is preparing to auction off another private lunch to raise money for a homeless charity in San Francisco.
The city of Oakland is expanding its Tuff Shed program for the homeless.
San Francisco's newest park, Transbay Park in the Financial District, is going to be a world-class attraction. And it is likely to attract the city's many homeless individuals as well.
One of the main sites for Vietnam-era protests in the Bay Area may be turning into a site for much-needed housing.
Though known for its compassion to the needy, San Francisco may have hit peak saturation with tent camps, stinky urine and trash littering the streets.
Santa Rosa police said a man was stabbed in the back Wednesday on a trail behind a former homeless camp.
It's not the kind of thing you'd expect to see on a college campus, but some students at San Jose State are asking for a place on school grounds to pitch their tents.
The California state auditor's report released Thursday says the state has about 134,000 homeless people, about 24 percent of the nation's total homeless population.
After weeks of legal battles, on Thursday almost 100 people living in a Santa Rosa homeless encampment are being told to pack up.
City officials in Antioch are telling those squatting in a homeless encampment that they have to move because there are too many people living there.
A school in San Francisco's Mission District is considering a first-of-its-kind plan to tackle the growing housing crisis and help its students and their families who are struggling to find a place to live.
Dozens of people living in RVs along the Berkeley waterfront are being told to pack up and leave. But many say they have nowhere else to go.
Cisco Systems Inc. is donating $50 million to address homelessness in Santa Clara County and is encouraging other Silicon Valley companies to also step up.
An old school bus was headed for the scrap heap, but a team of industrial tech students at San Jose State University are repurposing it into a tiny house for the homeless.
Thanks to an act of kindness by an Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy, a 67-year-old man living on the street in the East Bay was recently able to meet his birth mother in a reunion 65 years in the making.
A homeless man who couldn't afford $330,000 bail while awaiting trial on burglary and auto theft charges has been released from a San Francisco jail on the order of a federal judge in the city.
Los Angeles prosecutors won't criminally charge an officer who fatally shot an unarmed man, despite police chief's recommendation to do so.
New hospital beds for San Francisco's mentally ill and homeless are in a locked facility, renewing a debate on California's commitment laws.
