California lawmakers passed a $214.8 billion budget deal last week and are still working on trailer bills, which can be passed after the main budget bill is passed. The budget bill will go into effect on July 1, the start of the fiscal year, and will outline the state’s spending plan until next year’s budget. […]

California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, unveiled his first California budget proposal last month and it’s an $8 billion increase over Jerry Brown’s last budget. Governor Newsom plans on pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into housing and homelessness. These two issues were a major part of his campaign last year that he promised he would […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In late May, homeless advocate Michael McConnell asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to not ratify this year’s count of San Diego County’s homeless due to it leaving off almost 600 people. The Regional Task Force on the Homeless organized the January count and released a report in May that showed 540 […]

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 […]