California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population ...

Homelessness — and affordability and housing availability — is among the many concerns voters will ask candidates to address ...

Sacramento County, like many communities across the state, hasn't attempted to physically count the number of homeless people since January 2024, per federal guidelines. Yet on Thursday from ...

The governor has boasted a 9% drop in unsheltered homelessness, but many more people in California are homeless than before ...

The latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting homelessness looms: President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to deeply cut ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Open-air heroin use. Sidewalks smeared in human feces. Block-long homeless camps and people with severe mental illnesses wading through traffic in socks and hospital clothes. You would ...

Possible 2026 California ballot initiative gives seniors a tax break they don’t need — to prevent a homeless problem they don ...

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