Placer County Local News: Homelessness


All Local Homelessness News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

Image caption: The California mental health crisis is tied to both homelessness and rising crime.
UPDATE: California’s Mental Health Crisis: How We Got Here

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.

Image caption: Kerry Wood, CEO of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, says the organization researches areas of need to help donors direct their contributions.
What Is a Community Foundation?

By channeling funds to a number of nonprofits working on various issues in a given region, community foundations help solve big problems throughout California.

Image caption: The cycle of crime and homelessness is escalating, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Homelessness and Crime in California: Even More Complex Than You Think

The links between homelessness and crime are complex, and the idea that unhoused individuals present a danger to their community seems to be exaggerated.

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02/12/2025
Outreach workers in the Bay Area city of Fremont worry the new ordinance could target them, despite assurances from the city.

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02/06/2025
Read on to learn more about the progress in converting a former Hampton Inn & Suites in Roseville to an apartment building for housing of former homeless.

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01/23/2025
Read on to learn more about the joint Placer County and AMI Housing application for a $20 million state grant to help combat local homelessness.

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01/14/2025
Jennielynn Holmes stood in the middle of a make-shift evacuation center when the scope of the crisis hit her.

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12/11/2024
Gov. Newsom launched an ambitious program that uses Medi-Cal to help Californians access housing, healthy food and more. Now, its fate is in the hands of President-Elect Trump.

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12/10/2024
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A vision years in the making has become a reality with the opening of Brown Bear Studios, a 14-unit permanent supportive housing facility in Kings Beach.

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11/29/2024
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Acres of Hope, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping women and children break the cycles of homelessness and trauma, is asking for the community’s support on GivingTuesday, Dec. 3, to continue sharing the beauty of hope with its families.

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11/25/2024
Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places.

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10/30/2024
Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

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10/17/2024
Multiple state agencies spent nearly $24 billion on housing and homeless programs in the first five years of Gavin Newsom’s governorship, but the number of people without homes continued to grow, rising by 20% to more than 180,000 in the most recent federal count in 2023.

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09/30/2024
Homeless service providers are scaling back and taking out loans as they wait for late payments from the government.

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09/19/2024
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The Lincoln City Council and Western Placer Unified School District are taking legal action against The Gathering Inn’s new medical respite center for homeless individuals.

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09/17/2024
Over the last five years, the state government has spent some $24 billion to ameliorate homelessness, which, according to polls, is California’s most troublesome issue.

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09/17/2024
Failed legislative bills have attempted to create safe parking programs for students to sleep in their cars on California campuses while awaiting housing. Meanwhile, Long Beach City College allows homeless students to park overnight.

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09/13/2024
For five years, California officials responding to the homelessness crisis had to work around one big restriction imposed by the federal courts: Because they didn’t have enough shelter beds, cities generally couldn’t make homeless camps illegal.

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09/12/2024
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Hundreds of community members showed up Saturday to protest the proposed homeless medical respite center at 1660 3rd street in Lincoln.

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09/11/2024
More than two-dozen California cities passed, strengthened or are considering ordinances that penalize people for sleeping outside, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed cities to crack down.

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09/10/2024
An exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest California homeless count reveals some good news and bad news: Though the growth rate of homelessness appears to be slowing, the overall number of unhoused Californians increased from two years ago.

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09/05/2024
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Lincoln community members attended last week’s city council meeting to discuss The Gathering Inn's purchase of the building at 1660 3rd Street.