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Tag: homeless shelters

A tent encampment in the Skid Row district of Los Angeles on August 7, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Los Angeles Women’s Center tackles female homelessness

by Jacqueline Garcia September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Despite the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic has caused by canceling countless events across the nation, the Downtown Los Angeles Women’s Center (DWC) is holding a virtual campaign to raise funds to help homeless women. Unlike previous years when a gala was organized, this year the “Together Housed” campaign began on Sunday, September 6 and will […]

Kathy Miranda, a resident of a homeless encampment named Dream Camp, brushes off a table at the communal kitchen, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Fresno homeless advocate Dez Martinez set up the camp with community donations and help. She was frustrated by the lack of safety on Santa Clara Street. Photo by John Walker, The Fresno Bee

She’s ‘breaking the law’ to help Fresno’s homeless. Will the government stop her?

by Manuela Tobias August 26, 2020September 2, 2020

‘Someone will contract the virus here’: Meet homeless Californians trying to survive a pandemic

Byrhonda Lyons by Byrhonda Lyons April 30, 2020December 30, 2020
A man walks past tents as Oakland Public Works Department employees remove debris from a homeless encampment at Mosswood Park in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group

For homeless, can CA move faster than coronavirus?

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 27, 2020March 26, 2020

Newsom’s homeless plan faces local opposition + Texas sues California

Dan Morain by Dan Morain February 11, 2020February 11, 2020
Homeless begin to enter the California National Guard Armory in Santa Ana on Thursday, July 12, 2018.

Newsom offers vacant land for homeless shelters, but local officials worry: Who will pay?

Nigel Duara by Nigel Duara February 10, 2020February 26, 2020
Homeless survey volunteers gather survey information from homeless people living in the Lowell neighborhood of Fresno during the January annual point-in-time homeless count. Photo by Craig Kohlruss, Fresno Bee

California just finished counting its homeless — a tally sure to be inaccurate, and politically weaponized

Avatar by Manuela Tobias and Matt Levin January 30, 2020February 27, 2020
A woman walks toward friends at a homeless encampment where she lives next to the Interstates 101 and 280 in San Jose

You’ve just been named California’s homelessness czar — what’s your first move?

Avatar by Matt Levin January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

You may get to vote on homelessness + intersex surgery legislation + e-scooter head injuries

Dan Morain by Dan Morain January 14, 2020January 13, 2020

Oil drilling fight ahead, Newsom’s homelessness challenge, and another defection from Trump’s GOP

Dan Morain by Dan Morain December 6, 2019December 9, 2019

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