Homelessness Archives : Bay Area Council

Council-Sponsored Homelessness Legislation Unveiled

Apr 9 2025

The Bay Area Council this week (April 7) joined Senator Catherine Blakespear (San Diego) and Senator Josh Becker (Menlo Park) at a press conference...

San Jose, San Francisco Mayors Announce Plans to Bolster Homelessness Efforts

Mar 19 2025

The Bay Area Council joined a spirited San José City Council meeting last night (Mar 18) to support Mayor Matt Mahan’s proposal requiring unshel...

Critical Reports Highlight Importance of Council’s Work to Bring Greater Accountability to Homeless Spending

Mar 12 2025

Almost six years ago, the Bay Area Council released a seminal report highlighting the scope and severity of the Bay Area’s massive homelessness c...

Council-Sponsored Homeless Legislation Clears First Hurdle

Mar 20 2024

Legislation the Bay Area Council is co-sponsoring to streamline production of interim housing to address California’s unsheltered homelessness cr...

Council Leads Amicus Brief in Pivotal U.S. Supreme Court Homelessness Case

Mar 6 2024

The Bay Area Council and a coalition of over a dozen organizations submitted a second “friend of the court” brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in ...

Council Co-Sponsoring Game-Changing Legislation Aimed at Unsheltered Homelessness

Mar 6 2024

The Bay Area Council and its partners at SPUR and DignityMoves joined Senator Josh Becker and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan at a press conference Monda...

Council Prepares Legislative Agenda on Homelessness

Feb 21 2024

The Bay Area Council’s Homelessness Committee and its partners are finalizing an ambitious legislative agenda to be unveiled in the coming weeks....

San Mateo County Passes Bay Area Council-Backed Ordinance to Bring Homeless Residents Indoors

Jan 24 2024

Unsheltered homeless residents in San Mateo County will be required to accept shelter when available under a new ordinance passed unanimously Tuesd...

U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Bay Area Council in Taking up Controversial Homelessness Case

Jan 17 2024

In a major victory for the Bay Area Council’s work to address homelessness, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a controversial lower fed...

As Homelessness Increases, Council Urges Bay Area Legislators to Embrace Interim Housing

Jan 10 2024

California is losing ground in the fight against homelessness and should shift focus towards bringing people indoors and saving lives. That was the...

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