Homelessness

Providing permanent housing is the end goal for addressing our homelessness crisis and getting unhoused people off the streets and into settings wh...

Unsheltered homelessness costs lives. This winter alone, six homeless residents died in the cold on a single night in San Jose; one burned alive in...

The Bay Area Council on Thursday (May 26) hosted a webinar exploring the complex legal issues surrounding the proliferation of homeless encampments...

Visa Foundation has announced a $12 million grant to Tipping Point Community, a nonprofit organization committed to fighting poverty in the San Fra...

The Bay Area Council was on hand Monday for a meeting with Governor Newsom and state and local elected leaders to discuss the importance of CARE C...

SB 2211 (Ting), a bill the Bay Area Council is co-sponsoring to expand California’s inventory of emergency shelters, will face its first test at ...

Bay Area voters have reached their breaking point when it comes to a seemingly intractable homeless crisis that is wrecking thousands of lives, cau...

Amidst growing scenes of human suffering and despair on California’s streets, Governor Newsom on Thursday (March 3) announced a new proposal to i...

California has the least sheltered homeless population in the U.S. Just 30% of homeless Californians have access to emergency shelter compared to 7...

The Santa Clara City Council this week knuckled under to angry local opponents of a proposed 60-unit project to provide transitional housing for th...