The Downtown Reno Partnership‘s Grant Denton was named today the most recent City of Reno Superhero. Denton, a recovering drug addict, was homeless for three years. He comes from a broken family, was a high-school dropout, and became a performer on the ... read more
In early July, a homeless couple living in North Hollywood lost all of their possessions to a city garbage truck just an hour after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti visited their encampment. How the City of Los Angeles “cleans up” its hundreds ... read more
The grim stats from around California have piled up in recent weeks: In Alameda County, the number of homeless residents jumped 43 percent over the past two years. In Orange County, that number was 42 percent. Kern County volunteers surveying the regionâ€... read more
Las Vegas City Hall located at 495 S. Main St. in downtown Las Vegas. (Las Vegas Review-Journal) The Las Vegas City Council on Monday approved a $616 million general fund spending plan for the coming fiscal year that accomplishes two key goals: It funds d... read more
Melver Lovette Robinson, a San Francisco native, retired in 2015 after working in hospitality, food services and for the Army for decades. She loved being around people and worked at the United Council of Human Services for 17 years — most recently, coo... read more
Los Angeles officials are bracing for the release of a report that’s likely to show little or no progress in reining in homelessness, despite the $619 million they spent last year to grapple with the crisis. The gloomy prognosis on one of Southern Calif... read more
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter speaks with volunteers and county officials during the biennial Point in Time homeless headcount on Jan. 23, 2019. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, after years of rapid growth in Orange County homeless deaths, issue... read more
A new bill in California’s legislature is considering allowing pets in more homeless shelters By CALMATTERS | PUBLISHED: March 5, 2019 at 12:45 am | UPDATED: March 5, 2019 at 8:50 am By Elizabeth Castillo When police officers found Julie Hemingway b... read more
A homeless man rests on top of a subway vent grate as tourist walk past, in Washington, DC on Jan. 5, 2018.(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Washington state Sen. Curtis King (R-Takima) recently proposed not allowing homeless shelters, or even ... read more
California’s housing crisis is due in large part to a lack of supply, particularly when it comes to affordable housing, and it is hitting low-income individuals the hardest. By Michelle Inez Simon California’s housing crisis has left hundreds of t... read more
