California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom gives his final State of the State address as governor at the California Capitol in Sacramento on Thursday. Sacramento County, like many communities across the state, hasn’t ...

The governor has boasted a 9% drop in unsheltered homelessness, but many more people in California are homeless than before ...

Homelessness — and affordability and housing availability — is among the many concerns voters will ask candidates to address in 2026.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Open-air heroin use. Sidewalks smeared in human feces. Block-long homeless camps and people with severe mental illnesses wading through traffic in socks and hospital clothes. You would ...

Nearly 300,000 California students are homeless and face shrinking school supports as one‑time federal aid ends.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Gavin Newsom gives his final State of the State address as governor at the California Capitol in Sacramento on Thursday, Jan.

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. The latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news ...

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 ...