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As summer approaches, City prepared to open weather-respite centers
As summer approaches and the temperatures rise, the City is prepared to open weather-respite centers during extreme heat. Following its use as a respite location during winter storms, the City’s O...
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services
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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.
The 2023 collapse of Sacramento Self-Help Housing has led to a large hole in local services. But it also shows problems go well beyond the former nonprofit.
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 …
As problems accelerated for Sacramento Self-Help Housing, human impacts deepened, with people the organization once helped facing the prospect of homelessness.
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 …
As the numbers of people experiencing homelessness in the Sacramento area grew, the once-nimble SSHH expanded its services. Problems quickly followed.
By Keyshawn Davis Seven months ago, Joseph Rival drove to California from Oregon with his mother, who’d recently had a stroke, because she wanted to...
By Marie-Elena Schembri In 2023, the city of Sacramento ranked in the top three U.S. cities for percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals and families and...
Beauty 2 The Streetz visits Sacramento to provides local homeless with beauty supplies, essentials By Katerina Graziosi Dusk falls as Shirley Raines sits at the...
A once-groundbreaking nonprofit working with chronically homeless people in California’s capital closed and filed for bankruptcy in 2023.
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go....
In San Mateo County, a new law allows police to charge homeless people with criminal offenses if they don’t accept shelter. SCOTUS will soon weigh in with a potential landmark decision in an Oregon case.
By Hannah Ross Hazel Watson has over seven years of experience networking and advocating on important issues within the Sacramento community from housing and homelessness...
By Chris Nichols and Keyshawn Davis Heather Coffman says she left her home nearly two decades ago to escape the domestic violence that shattered her...
San Francisco provides all tenants facing eviction access to an attorney. Across the Bay, in Contra Costa County, it’s a different story. Two tenants’ stories show the difference a lawyer can make.
California lawmakers made an effort in 2023 to remove red tape around new affordable houses, but obstacles such as high interest rates, sluggish local approval processes and a shortage of skilled construction workers remain.
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