Santa Cruz County Local News: Homelessness

Around 200 people went to the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium for the annual Homeless Memorial to pay tribute to the record number of unhoused people who died this year.

California is trying to make its Medi-Cal payment system more efficient, but there may be some collateral damage.

The homeless problem in King City, Monterey County, is being affected by a developer's financial issues.

Federally taxpayer-subsidized low-income housing is exempt from California's cap on rent increases.

Updated data for 2022 and 2023 shows that California’s homeless population is only getting larger.

The COVID-era dive into European-style social democracy helped a lot of people—but now that’s all over.

State program has run so low on money that applications have been delayed for two years or more.

In the middle of the holiday season, 14 families in Pajaro must find somewhere new to live in one of the country’s most expensive rental markets.

The Homeless Garden Project’s plans to relocate to Pogonip have fizzled, and leaders signed an agreement to stay at their farm on Shaffer Road and potentially build an office, barn, greenhouse, kitchen and housing.

A year after COVID-era eviction ban ended, renters face losing their homes at soaring rates.

Jamie has lived in Santa Cruz County since childhood. She now lives with her two cats in one of the dozens of RVs parked on Delaware Avenue and surrounding streets on the Lower Westside.

Hollywood hotel receives more than twice what it would for renting rooms to city of Los Angeles rather than long-term tenants