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There is simply no comprehensive state tally in 2025 to compare with 2024. Politicians tend to misuse some imperfect ...

The governor on Thursday will tout this sign of progress on an issue that has long bedeviled California politicians.

In Sacramento, there’s a word that keeps popping up during discussions about the state’s homelessness crisis: "accountability." Gov. Gavin Newsom has scolded cities and counties for failing to get ...

SACRAMENTO — The upset is palpable. News reports that the Trump administration is planning to cut state grants to build permanent housing for homeless people has led state officials and homeless ...

The latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting homelessness looms: President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to deeply cut ...

An unhoused resident sorts through a pile of clothes before an encampement sweep at Cesar Chavez Park in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego on Aug. 15, 2024. (File photo by Adriana ...

As California spends unprecedented billions of dollars to bring homeless people off the street, state lawmakers quietly approved new rules this summer requiring local governments to complete annual ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a new podcast interview that homelessness and poverty were the poster child of the state's failures and said the affordability and housing crisis was the ...

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most ...