L.A. County released a draft spending plan for Measure A on Thursday that slashes some homeless services to fill a budget gap ...

A total of 12,034 people were homeless in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties in January, when outreach workers and volunteers spent a week asking people two dozen questions, including where ...

With their addition to spending and subservience to public-sector unions, California lawmakers have ignored the state’s debt crisis. In particular, the Legislature has basically shrugged as unfunded ...

In July 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California agencies to “urgently” close homeless encampments on state property, aiming to show local officials that the state is leading by example in ...

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SACRAMENTO — The upset is palpable. News reports that the Trump administration is planning to cut state grants to build permanent housing for homeless people has led state officials and homeless ...

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Two men, one the former chief financial officer at a downtown Los Angeles-based developer of affordable housing, were charged in separate cases Thursday, Oct. 16, with illegally obtaining funds meant ...

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. The latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news ...