Sen. Catherine Blakespear says there needs to be “rethinking some things that have been our fixed pillars” when it comes to ...

The report released Tuesday, April 9, 2024, attempts to assess how effective the state and local cities have been spending billions of dollars to address the ongoing homelessness crisis in California.

For the 10 million people living in L.A. County, home to the worst of the state’s homelessness crisis, this feels like a turning point – one that all of California can get behind.

California auditor’s report found that despite roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the problem didn’t improve in many cities ...

Editor’s note: This piece was published in print on Sunday, April 30 as part of a pro-con debate on Housing First. To read the counterpoint by Rev. Andy Bales, click here. People become homeless ...

California’s homelessness crisis hamstrung by expensive lack of accountability according to key reports. Oakland spent $69 million and doesn’t know results.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state's homelessness ...

A recent report offered California a blueprint to solve homelessness in 12 years with an annual commitment of $8.1 billion, about 2.7% of the state budget.This includes $488 million per year in ...

The state of California has spent roughly $20 billion to address the crisis of homelessness, and now Gov. Gavin Newsom wants taxpayers to go into debt to pay even more.

California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless population actually grew.

California’s homeless population remains the biggest in the nation, but the crisis is growing more slowly here than in most of the rest of the country, according to new federal data.. The number ...

California continues to have the largest homeless population of any state — 187,084 in 2024 — and the highest rate of unsheltered people, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...