Mary Kate Bacalao

Opinion: We should be outraged about the conditions in SROs. SF must rethink what ‘getting people off the streets’ means

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For supportive housing to fulfill its mission, the city will have to make up for decades of underinvestment and neglect.

Manuela Tobias at CalMatters

California homeless population grew by 22,000 over pandemic

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The first statewide snapshot of California’s homelessness crisis since the pandemic hit reveals that the number of people without a stable place to call home increased by at least 22,500 over the past three years, to 173,800. That’s based on a CalMatters analysis of the federal government’s point-in-time count, a biennial headcount of people sleeping on…

Vince Bielski

CARE Courts—the controversial plan to compel people into drug, mental health treatment—set to become law

Gov. Gavin Newsom is poised to sign the sweeping CARE Court bill to address the state’s mounting homelessness and mental health crisis by allowing judges to order residents deemed unable to make medical decisions for themselves into treatment. The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which the state legislature passed overwhelmingly Wednesday, targets people…

California’s homeless population rose 5.8% in 2023, while U.S. rate surged 12%

California, which accounts for 12% of the population of the United States, has 28% of its homeless people—181,399.

Rachel Scheier

What are the reasons people in San Francisco are homeless?

There’s a tendency to believe people did something wrong to end up on the streets—we explored the existing data to find out what’s really happening.

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Opinion: We should be outraged about the conditions in SROs. SF must rethink what ‘getting people off the streets’ means

California homeless population grew by 22,000 over pandemic

CARE Courts—the controversial plan to compel people into drug, mental health treatment—set to become law

California’s homeless population rose 5.8% in 2023, while U.S. rate surged 12%

What are the reasons people in San Francisco are homeless?