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Fighting Through Homelessness to Housing

Keri is a Community Health Worker with Community Health Works (CoHeWo) in Sacramento County

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Winds Fuel Second Fast Moving Fire in Rancho Cordova Monday, Prompts Road Closures

Fire reportedly ignited by unattended homeless camp, one in custody

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Report: Folsom Sees Highest Rise in Homelessness Countywide

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. …

Image caption: Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in support of Prop. 1 during a press conference at the United Domestic Workers of America building in San Diego on Feb. 29, 2024. Voters narrowly passed the measure.
Newsom Releases Billions for Mental Health Housing

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.

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: As residents continue to exit California, the state’s political power at the national level is at risk.
Updated: California Exodus, Housing and the State's Political Future

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.

Image caption: Clifford Smith sits at a house he was leading for City Net in September 2023. Smith was previously a house leader for Sacramento Self-Help Housing, which collapsed and went bankrupt last year.
After Sacramento Self-Help Housing—What Happens Now

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.

Image caption: The O Lot Safe Sleeping site at Balboa Park in San Diego on March 22, 2024.
Is San Diego Homeless Camp Ban ‘Successful’?

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 …

Image caption: Kimbley Browning and her son Ronnie photographed at Camp Resolution in 2023.
The Beginning of the End for Sacramento Self-Help Housing

As problems accelerated for Sacramento Self-Help Housing, human impacts deepened, with people the organization once helped facing the prospect of homelessness.

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Folsom Council Won’t Move Forward on Homeless Resource Site Near Historic District

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

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Folsom Council to Review Possible Homeless Services Site at Former Railyard Tuesday

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 …

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Growth and Problems for Sacramento Self-Help Housing

As the numbers of people experiencing homelessness in the Sacramento area grew, the once-nimble SSHH expanded its services. Problems quickly followed.

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Protecting Pets in Sacramento’s Unhoused Community

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...

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Coordinated Access System creates one ‘front door’ for Sacramentans in need of shelter

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...

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Beauty in the eyes of the community: Nonprofit focuses on making unhoused people ‘feel inherently beautiful’

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...

Image caption: Mark Oden was among the thousands of chronically homeless people helped by Sacramento Self-Help Housing prior to the organization’s failure.
The Collapse of Sacramento Self-Help Housing

A once-groundbreaking nonprofit working with chronically homeless people in California’s capital closed and filed for bankruptcy in 2023.

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In California’s housing crisis, a senior fights to keep his place in the world

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....

Image caption: Under a new law, homeless people in San Mateo County can be criminally charged for refusing to move to a shelter.
Should Homelessness be a Crime? New San Mateo County Law Allows Charges

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.

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The California mental health crisis is tied to both homelessness and rising crime.
UPDATE: California’s Mental Health Crisis: How We Got Here
The making of Gov. Newsom's plan to help get mentally ill Californians into treatment.
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
What causes the cycle of homelessness and crime, and how to stop it.
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.