In San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie has deployed cops, “street ambassadors” and outreach workers to push homeless people ...

Every Wednesday night, an Oakland woman makes sure that hundreds of people don't go hungry while living on the streets of her city. Bopha Ul and her volunteers pack a lot of love into grocery bags ...

In 2025, Oakland city leaders celebrated the completion of a new apartment complex designed to get people off the streets, but months have passed and it remains closed. The Phoenix Apartments in West ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Every time Jennifer Farrell got close to her brother, he slipped through her fingers. As she walked the railroad ...

Of the dozens of people we interviewed at an Oakland homeless camp over the three months I spent getting to know its residents, Gilberto Gonzalez Rojas stood out for his sartorial selections. As we ...

Homeless encampments are a part of the landscape in many U.S. cities. In Oakland, California, one of the longest-standing and most well-known... A Tiny Plot to Call Home Homeless encampments are a ...

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To assess the program, CalMatters requested housing information from California’s 25 largest counties, as well as all of the ones that first launched the program. Of the 2,362 CARE Court petitions ...