California understands the pathway into homelessness. What the state still lacks is a coordinated system designed to interrupt it before families lose housing.
The federal government's annual "point-in-time" homelessness count is used by city and county governments across the country to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.
Whoever takes the mantle as California’s next governor will face an immediate test as they try to solve the crisis of homelessness on our streets. Nearly a quarter of all homeless U.S. residents live in California, though the state is only home to 11% of the country’s overall population. Voters are frustrated by encampments that […]
About a third of homeless people are renters, but since California's 58 county superior courts don’t all report on evictions, it’s hard to know what happened to those leases.