It turns out that San Jose has made slow progress in reaching its goal of adding 10,000 affordable homes by 2022. According to a new report from the city’s housing department, just 64 units had been completed by the end of the 2017-18 fiscal year, which was in June. The report also claims that another […]

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, investigators found that homeless people on skid row were taking money, food, or even cigarettes to forge signatures of registered voters on petitions to qualify initiatives for the ballot. This year, the LAPD has cracked down on suspected election fraud on skid row and they have arrested at […]

Back in August, U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia ordered San Diego to stop ticketing homeless people for living inside vehicles. The judge called the city’s longtime law prohibiting this act as too vague for effective enforcement. A suit was filed last year against the law by a group of disabled homeless people living in recreational […]

It appears that there are several people throughout the state that are working while homeless. A 2017 survey of the homeless population in San Francisco found that 13 percent of the 7,499 homeless people reported having part or full-time employment. In San Diego this year, an estimated 10 percent of the 4,990 people living in […]

The results of this year’s homeless count in Los Angeles were released on June 1, and they definitely point toward positive results for veterans. According to Los Angeles’s annual point-in-time homeless count, the veteran homeless population has declined 18 percent compared to last year’s count. It turned out that last year’s veteran homeless count was […]

San Francisco has done a good job with reducing the number of tents on city streets by over half in the past two years, but street behavior by the homeless, the mentally ill, and the drug abusers continues to be a challenge unfortunately. According to the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services, the number […]

Some great news from San Bernardino County, there has now been at least 1,000 military veterans that have been placed in permanent housing.  The 1,000th veteran was a 52-year-old Marine Corps veteran named Quintin Sherard. In San Bernardino, there is an estimated 646 homeless people, and Sherard was one of them. Sherard is a former […]

It took over a decade to open public bathrooms on skid row, which was seen as a possible turning point for the homeless people living there. However, after more than three months of operation, the trailers with toilets and showers on skid row shut down in late March for a planned expansion that has yet […]

According to a report released in May, the number of homeless veterans has increased by 24 percent (1,312 homeless veterans) this past year. This comes despite San Diego’s effort to house and shelter veterans. Last year, the number of homeless veterans nationwide increased for the first time in seven years, and there was a dramatic […]

An investigation by KPCC found reports of bedbugs, foul odors, harassment, poor lighting, rats, lax care in medical wards and even a “chicken incubator” in a room where homeless people were sleeping. The investigation revealed these safety and sanitation problems in shelters around the Los Angeles County. The report was conducted using public documents such […]