San Joaquin County Homelessness Digest

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

Read on to learn more about the project to develop a homeless navigation center on an 8.1-acre parcel on South Main Street in Manteca.

There are big plans for the 8-acre parcel on South Main in Manteca, including a homeless navigation facility, library and community center and multi-story affordable housing. Read on for details.

In their December 18 meeting, the Lodi City Council approved a camping ban ordinance. Read on to learn about what comes next.

Learn how the City of Lodi and nonprofit partners are preparing to step up efforts to move homeless from encampments into shelter and services with an increased emphasis on accountability.

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.

In their December 10 meeting, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a 62-acre former golf course in Stockton, with plans to develop it into a safe caming zone for homeless.

The City of Manteca spends over $600,000 annually for security at the emergency homeless shelter on Industrial Park Drive. Read on to learn more.

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

Learn more about the Quarterra Project, an 818 unit housing development breaking ground in 2025 on a 59-acre parcel at the corner of the 120 Bypass and South Main Street.

The Stockton City Council approved a stricter ban on camping on public property in their November 19 meeting, and declared a local emergency on homelessness. Read on for details as to what that entails.

The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors voted to acquire a 62-acre former golf course on North Wilson Way in Stockton and are considering using it for a homeless campground and other county facilities. Read on to learn more.

Weeks in the making, the proposed no-camping ordinance was considered in the November 6 Lodi City Council, and sent back for revisions.

On October 30, the Tracy Rotary presented a donation of $10,000 to support the McHenry House Family Shelter expansion project.

Despite a decrease of 15% compared to the last count in 2022, the number of homeless veterans in Sacramento County remains high.

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.

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.

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

In their September 24 meeting, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved an amendment with additional restrictions to the public property camping ordinance.

In their September 24 meeting, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved changes to the building code to support construction of safe parking and camping facilities for the homeless on county property.

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.

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.

An ordinance banning camping on land under county jurisdiction is under consideration by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors and may come up for a vote in their September 24 meeting.

A Solving Sacramento report on the September 7 Solidarity Summit on Homelessness.

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.

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.

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.

In anticipation of passing a camping ordinance, San Joaquin County is developing a safe and secure camping area for homeless access to health, hygiene and social services.

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.

In their August 27 meeting, the Stockton City Council discussed how to adapt policies on homeless encampments following the US Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling.

A summary of how $29.3 million over two rounds of funding to address homelessness in San Joaquin County have been directed.

On August 7, California Governor Newsom declared that counties needed to do more to clear homeless encampments or risk loss of state funding.