Prop. 47 led to an estimated 7,000 more unsheltered homeless Californians between 2015 and 2019, according to a new PPIC study.
Category: Homelessness
Homelessness appears to be down in some California counties. Stricter ordinances, though, could be obscuring the true numbers.
Homeless Californians suffer from depression, anxiety and PTSD at high rates; street therapy can be life changing, but access is limited.
In a legal win for California, a federal judge shot down Trump’s efforts to funnel money away from permanent homeless housing.
Bills moving through the California Legislature this year address state-funded sober housing, parked RVs and homelessness prevention.
The Trump administration wants to shift more money to homeless shelters that require sobriety, a change that would disrupt California’s “housing-first” policies.
Fraud allegations by the Trump administration could cost the LA area hundreds of millions of dollars in federal homelessness funding.
The Trump administration downplayed the decline in homelessness, contending far more people are on the streets today than a decade ago.
The annual federal “point-in-time” homelessness count is used in California to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.
Homelessness prevention shows promising results in California, as advocates push to spread it statewide and nationally.