Placer County Local Homelessness News Articles and Digest

Education Homelessness

Homeless Students Can Sleep Safely in Their Cars at This California College. Other Campuses Say No

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.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness Land Use & Development Crime & Justice

CA Cities Jump on Homeless Encampment Bans

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.

From Lincoln News Messenger...

Homelessness Land Use & Development City of Lincoln

Hundreds Attend Lincoln Protest of Homeless Medical Respite Center

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.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness Crime & Justice

No Sleeping Bags, Keep Moving: California Cities Increase Crackdown on Homeless Encampments

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.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness Housing State of California

CA Homeless Count Is Up 8% From 2022

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.

From Lincoln News Messenger...

The Gathering Inn Homelessness Land Use & Development City of Lincoln

Community Members Question Lincoln City Council After the Gathering Inn's Purchase of City Building

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.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness State of California

California Has Spent Billions on Homelessness but Lacks Hard Data on Outcomes

09/04/2024
California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

From Lincoln News Messenger...

Homelessness Land Use & Development City of Lincoln The Gathering Inn

The Gathering Inn Surprises Lincoln With Purchase of Property for Medical Respite Center

08/29/2024
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The Gathering Inn is officially coming to Lincoln, catching the community, city and elected officials off guard.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness State of California

Audit: California Risked Millions in Homelessness Funds Due to Poor Anti-Fraud Protections

08/06/2024
A critical new federal audit calls out California for doing too little to prevent fraudulent spending of homelessness funds. Nearly $320 million was at risk.

From The Sacramento Bee...

Homelessness Land Use & Development

Response to SCOTUS Ruling and Newsom Homeless Order

07/27/2024
A look at how Folsom, Chico and Placer County are responding to the recent Supreme Court ruling and Newsom executive order on homeless encampments.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness State of California

CA Cities and Counties Ignoring Mandate to Monitor Homeless Shelters

07/17/2024
In 2021, responding to reports that the state’s homeless shelters were dirty and dangerous, the state Legislature crafted a plan: It would require local governments to inspect their shelters after complaints and file annual reports on shelter conditions.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness

California Passed a Law to Fix Unsafe Homeless Shelters. Cities and Counties Are Ignoring It

07/16/2024
The Supreme Court’s decision on homelessness will test a shelter system that’s full of problems – and lacking accountability.

From CalMatters...

Health Homelessness Housing State of California

Can California’s Health Care Providers Help Solve the State’s Homelessness Crisis?

07/10/2024
Taking advantage of new state funds, some California healthcare providers are starting to offer what their homeless patients really need: housing.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness

6 Myths About Homelessness in California

07/07/2024
There’s a lot of misinformation floating around out there about homelessness in California. We use data to dispel several common myths.

From The Sacramento Bee...

Homelessness Crime & Justice

SCOTUS Rules Cities Can Ban Homeless Camps

06/28/2024
The Supreme Court 6-3 ruling in the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case found that the fining and arresting of homeless people does not violate Eighth Amendment rights.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness Crime & Justice

Supreme Court Gives Cities in California and Beyond More Power to Crack Down on Homeless Camps

06/28/2024
The ruling by the conservative court majority means cities no longer are prohibited from punishing homeless people for camping if they have nowhere else to go.

From Loomis News...

Homelessness Land Use & Development Housing City of Roseville County of Placer

Placer County Opens Renovated Apartments at Former Hotel in Roseville

06/27/2024
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County opens renovated apartments to homeless at former hotel in Roseville.

From Auburn Journal...

Families & Children Homelessness Community Service & Support Acres of Hope

Free During Summer? Acres of Hope Seeks Volunteers

06/21/2024
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With kids out of school for the summer, Acres of Hope, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping women and children break the cycles of homelessness and trauma, is seeking volunteers to help in its children’s center.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness Housing

How Best to Reduce California Homelessness?

06/06/2024
A panel at the CalMatters Ideas Festival debates how to reduce homelessness without punishing poverty. There’s worry about a potential $1 billion cut in state funding.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness State of California

California Homelessness Funding Is on the Chopping Block. Will It Make the Final Budget?

06/04/2024
It’s the billion-dollar question. That’s how much cities and other local governments have been receiving from the state each year to deal with California's ever-increasing population of homeless people.

Placer County Local News: Homelessness