Homelessness

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...

The Bay Area Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committees this week welcomed Dr. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Senior Advisor Richard Cho a...