homelessness

A new study by a Columbia University economics professor said that COVID-19 could lead to 30,000 Californians ending up homeless, as well as 45% surge nationwide.

Years ago, students at the University of Southern California decided they wanted to help homeless college students, so they opened up a place for them to live in Koreatown called Trojan Shelter. It’s a legacy left behind by some of this year’s graduates that will help homeless students trying to survive. While it’s difficult to quantify just how many...

After a two-month delay, San Jose is finally putting some empt trailers to use — housing the homeless.

More than 400 of San Francisco’s homeless are isolated in hotels after one of the city’s largest shelters was cleared out in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak.

More than 400 of San Francisco’s homeless are isolated in hotels after one of the city’s largest shelters was cleared out in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak. Lili Tan reports.

The mayors of California’s biggest cities had a “robust” discussion with Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday, highlighting their opposition to his plan on how to spend $750 million to combat the state’s homelessness crisis.

Some people who used to be homeless are putting on their running shoes for this weekend’s LA Marathon. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, March 6, 2020.

A 40-bed, pet-friendly homeless shelter with showers, laundry, health care specialists, casework services, community rooms and 24-hour security opened Monday in a formerly vacant building in San Pedro. The building is in the 100 block of West Eighth Street, near South Harbor Boulevard, and was formerly the Los Angeles County Public Health Clinic. It was turned into a homeless shelter…

Five FEMA trailers rolled into Antioch Saturday to help the city’s homeless population. This is part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide homeless plan. Each trailer will house five people.

The city of San Jose unveiled its first Bridge Housing Community so that homeless people who are transitioning into permanent housing, can have a place to stay during that transition.

The city of San Jose unveiled its first Bridge Housing Community so that homeless people who are moving into permanent housing, can have a place to stay during their transition. Damian Trujillo reports.

The number of homeless women in downtown Los Angeles who reported being raped has risen in each of the last 3 years, and few of those cases have led to arrests, according to LAPD crime report data. Officers in the Central Area, which includes Skid Row, recorded rape cases that listed 59 women experiencing homelessness as victims in 2019. There…

A transitional housing program for mothers experiencing homelessness has opened in San Francisco’s Bayview district, and its part of Mayor London Breed’s efforts to address homelessness. Jelani House, located in the Bayview, holds 17 private rooms, a living room, community spaces, kitchen, dining area, a deck and a backyard. “Jelani House is more than a facility and more than...

Santa Clara County says it’s making progress when it comes to keeping people from becoming homeless, but admits it still has a lot of work to do when it comes to getting people off the streets.

California’s governor is expected to call for better mental health care to help the state’s huge homeless population when he addresses one of the state’s most pressing problems in his second State of the State speech.

A sobering fact when it comes to making it in the Bay Area: People living in vehicles is a reality nearly 10,000 people wake up to each and every day, according to recent census data.

At City College of San Francisco, a dozen or so students have formed a community, living off the grid in solar-powered camper vans at the edge of campus, building and maintaining their tiny homes together. Faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some say it’s a financial decision to emerge from school with a small savings, rather...

At City College of San Francisco, a dozen or so students have formed a community, living off the grid in solar-powered camper vans at the edge of campus, building and maintaining their tiny homes together. Faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some say it’s a financial decision to emerge from school with a small savings, rather...

Mayors for the Bay Area’s largest cities Thursday are set to weigh in on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $750 million plan to address homelessness statewide, and the main point of contention is how the funds would be distributed.