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 ...

Newsom recently boasted about a 9% drop in homelessness, yet there are still plenty of encampments critics could feature in ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- President Donald Trump took another swipe at California by criticizing San Francisco and Los Angeles for its homeless problem. By the way, he also came down on New York City. Mr ...

Americans pour staggering amounts of money into the fight against homelessness every year through federal programs, state funding and private donations. Yet a new analysis argues that despite the ...

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 ...

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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 ...