Tuesday's meeting of the Oakland City Council’s Public Safety Committee was postponed for three weeks due to a lack of quorum ...

Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty seeks an increase in the property transfer tax, imposed every time a home is sold, to help “unsheltered people” in the California capital. The increase would only apply ...

More than 60 Bay Area leaders returned from a two-day trip to Texas where they toured homeless shelters in the state, and met ...

In April, the National Head Start Association regional office Chicago, which oversees programs in six states, was abruptly ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Friday that a planned increase in federal immigration enforcement was on pause throughout the ...

Unlike Sam Jones Hall in Santa Rosa or the Guerneville Veterans Memorial Building shelter, with large shared bunk rooms that resemble disaster evacuation centers, the new dorm-like shelter features 40 ...

To bring the stories of the homeless community and those who have been directly impacted by encampment sweeps to a larger audience, the grassroots organization POOR Magazine has been spreading […] ...

Homeless encampments are a part of the landscape in many U.S. cities. In Oakland, California, one of the longest-standing and ...

Prescott Station opens in West Oakland, offering 235 affordable apartments on a former homeless encampment site.

The site of what was once a sprawling homeless encampment in West Oakland has become an affordable housing complex for ...

AUBURN HILLS, MI – A four-point buck found wedged between concrete freeway barriers in Oakland County was rescued by local police and first responders Monday afternoon. According to a news release ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s hard to stay calm when it’s your job to rid Oakland of trash. Josh Rowan, the city’s acting public works director, becomes irate when he drives through the canyons of cardboard ...