Homelessness

Voters may get chance to weigh in on homeless crisis. Helmet law debate returns as electric scooter head injuries spike. Intersex surgery bill stalls.

Recommendations by Gov. Gavin Newsom's task force on homelessness in California call for a legally enforceable 'mandate to end homelessness' on the November ballot, echo the governor's request for more funding and call for a homelessness czar. 

Homelessness, education, climate action, health, consumer protection, school lunches: Gov. Gavin Newsom's agenda couldn't differ more from President Donald Trump's. Budgets are a statement of values, notes Newsom. Here’s what his choices say about California’s.

More money coming to fight homelessness. Uber changes rules for drivers in response to new law. Census data show why Californians are leaving state.

Affordable housing plan gets chilly reception. Big cities tackle homelessness in different ways. Push to ban e-cigarettes resurfaces.

Deadlines loom for bills that stalled in 2019. Lawmaker wants to make housing a right. New worker-classification law takes effect.

State legislators go back to work this week with a focus on homelessness, wildfire, how to spend yet another fat budget surplus, and a Capitol baby boom.

As California lawmakers return for a new year, Anthony Rendon (the Assembly leader, not the ball player) talks wildfires, housing, ballot measures, the gig economy, affirmative action, Gov. Gavin Newsom and supermajorities. And babies. And home runs.  

New laws in a minute, court challenges to AB 5, homelessness tops the agenda for 2020 in California, and a look back at the old year, via satellite.

California's most vexing issue is also its most shameful: the large and rising number of residents who lack a safe place to call home. Here's what you need to know about the problem — and possible solutions.