Study Suggests Housing Santa Clara County's Homeless Is Cheaper Than Letting Them Live On Streets
A new long-term study shows that it actually might be cheaper to build housing for the homeless than to allow them to live on the streets.
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A new long-term study shows that it actually might be cheaper to build housing for the homeless than to allow them to live on the streets.
A mobile coffee cart staffed by the homeless is just one idea getting a jolt of funding in San Jose. It's one of 13 projects aimed at making downtown San Jose more user friendly.
Santa Clara County's homeless situation is proving to be very expensive, costing the country more than half a billion dollars a year.
20 percent of those who enjoy a free meal at St. Anthony's Diner in San Francisco's Tenderloin are veterans. KCBS talks to some of the vets this Memorial Day who've endured hardships even after the war.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced a new public-private partnership to construct new housing for formerly homeless veterans and families in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood.
A $10,000 reward has been offered to help find a thief who stole and beat a homeless man's pit bull puppy so badly that veterinarians had to put it down.
A South San Jose neighborhood has had enough with a growing homeless camp that has been behind their homes for years. The state is now stepping in to kick the encampment out.
There's been a significant increase recently in the number of citations issued in San Francisco to the homeless who camp out in the city's parks and open spaces.
Sausalito police have closed Dunphy Park after the body of a homeless man was discovered offshore around 9 a.m. Monday.
U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald expressed his support in San Francisco Wednesday for additional Bay Area resources to help get homeless veterans into stable housing.
San Francisco's non-profit Larkin Street Youth services, dedicated to helping homeless youth, has opened a new, consolidated service hub in the Tenderloin.
San Francisco's plans for the Super Bowl City were revealed Tuesday, and while city officials count down to the kickoff they also must deal with large crowds of homeless who camp out in the heart of where the celebration is planned.
Police arrested a suspect who allegedly beat a sleeping homeless man with a metal baseball bat early Tuesday morning in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood.
The controversial head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco has some very public critics, but now he has some equally public defenders. A new group of San Francisco Catholics has formed to support Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
San Francisco police say a man attacked a 5-year-old girl as she walked in the Marina district Wednesday morning.
Santa Rosa police have identified the pedestrian who was injured when he ran into a moving vehicle on Santa Rosa Avenue Sunday night as 50-year-old Dennis Anthony Rosa.
Bevan Dufty, San Francisco's Director of Housing Opportunity Partnerships and Engagement, is emphasizing how the community needs to pull together to combat the city's homelessness problem.
Protesters from a number of faith groups pulled out blankets and pillows to spend the night on Berkeley's streets Thursday night as a way to show support for better treatment of the city's homeless population.
It was the list no airport wanted to top, but coming in at number one in an Associated Press investigation, San Francisco International Airport had 37 perimeter breaches in the past decade.
Streets in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood blocks away from fancy stores and long lines of tourists waiting for cable cars have been cleaner since solar-powered toilets began rolling in four afternoons per week.
After reviewing a video of the incident, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office has dismissed the case against two homeless men who had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery charges in a confrontation with two Berkeley community ambassadors.
Patrick Armstrong was often homeless and sometimes hungry, as he grew up in San Jose, living in the barbershop where his parents worked. Now, he's graduated law school and working to help the poor, thanks to Students Rising Above.
Four months after the closure of The Jungle, once regarded as one of the nation's largest homeless encampments, protesters and homeless advocates returned to the San Jose site to demand more permanent housing.
A homeless woman inside a tent was run over by a Caltrans truck this morning as workers were attempting to clean up an encampment along Highway 101 and Story road in San Jose.
A man employed as a hospitality ambassador by a Berkeley civic group was caught on camera beating a homeless man who was later arrested.
