El Dorado County Homelessness Articles

This past week, I had the opportunity to walk alongside Folsom’s Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and witness firsthand the tireless and often thankless work they do to address the city’s homeless encampments. What I saw was not just law enforcement—it …

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – On Tuesday, city council voted on increasing master fees, awarding contracts to Live Violence Free (LVF) and Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless (TCH), and a purchase of the property at 2111 – 2121 Lake Tahoe …

On January 26th, Sacramento County celebrated the groundbreaking of the Watt Avenue Safe Stay Community Campus, an innovative project designed to address homelessness by tackling its root causes—not just the symptoms. This comprehensive approach represents a meaningful step toward long-term …

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Last Tuesday's City Council meeting had city housing manager Jessica Wackenhut Lomeli at the podium for several items, including discussing an amendment to employee housing ordinances, contracts with the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless and …

The Board of Supervisors took a new step toward addressing safety with the adoption of an ordinance amendment curbing unlawful camping on public property during their regular meeting on Tuesday.

The Sacramento County Board of Sipervisors approved, at its Oct. 22nd meeting, up to $1,137,788 in funding to complete construction on Joshua House, a facility that provides end-of-life comfort care for homeless individuals with terminal illnesses, after being discharged from …

​​​​​​The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors approved, at its Sept. 10 meeting, the staff recommendation to spend $19.4 million on two new, innovative projects designed to shelter and house people exiting homelessness directly off the American River Parkway.

On Saturday Assemblyman Josh Hoover of Folsom announced the passage of Assembly Bill 2903 out of the Legislature, which would require state-run homelessness programs to annually report cost and outcome data to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH). It …

Small, less-expensive readymade homes could buy time as the state continues to struggle with homelessness and high building costs.  By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless announced that Joseph Herold of Zephyr Cove has been appointed as Board Chair for TCH.

Fire reportedly ignited by unattended homeless camp, one in custody

Last week, the newest edition of the Point in Time Count report was released for Sacramento County and the communities within it, detailing the current amount of homeless residents across the region, as well as critical data about that population. …

Julie Gardner, who was born and raised in South Lake Tahoe, has recently taken over as CEO of California's most prominent employment social enterprise non-profits. The organization she now helms, Downtown Streets Team, works across more than 20 Northern and …

California voters narrowly passed Proposition 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s measure to fund mental health housing. He’s prodding counties to use the money quickly.

How the California mental health crisis emerged out of the state’s history of deinstitutionalization and laws designed to protect the mentally ill, as well as the communities around them.

The California housing crisis is not only weakening the state politically at the national level, it could shift the political balance in Washington, D.C., as Republican-led states add population while California’s exodus continues.

A new bill would make it illegal for homeless residents to camp in certain places, such as near schools, throughout California. Its authors say such a ban has had great success in San Diego. But a closer look at that …

Mayor cites topic as a bad idea after “taking the heat” from capacity crowd at city hall

The Folsom City Council will hold its final public meeting of the month on Tuesday. Among the items on the agenda will be the review an analysis of possibilities and impacts of providing a homeless services facility at the former …