Local governments across the U.S. have increasingly turned to sweeps and arrests as the number of people living on the ...

There are probably more prominent homeless encampments in California, but the collection of tents, lean-tos and makeshift ...

The city of Chico plans to clear several public areas of homeless encampments next week as part of its ongoing enforcement of local anti-camping ...

Two years ago, as a stopgap measure, Oakland set up toilets, washstands and garbage cans at two of the city’s biggest homeless camps. It was supposed to be the first step toward getting people off the ...

A resident who said he had been living at Camp Resolution the past two years shouts from the top of its gate in protest as Sacramento Police arrive to remove the encampment on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024.

In the past five months, Oakland has endured the tragedies of the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people and a blaze at a halfway house that took four lives. Both buildings turned out to be deadly ...

In the wake of the fatal police shooting of a homeless man on Shotwell Street in the Mission District, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is declaring all homeless tent encampments to be safety hazards and ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to "functionally end family homelessness" within five years.

City officials have cleared two homeless camps in central Columbus in recent months as part of the community-wide homeless initiative. The camps, located north of the intersection of Jackson and 11th ...