Former Sebastopol Inn soon opens as Project Homekey supportive housing complex
The second of two new housing complexes for people experiencing homelessness, the former Sebastopol Inn, is scheduled to open in Sebastopol next week, ...
Navigation center offers hope with permanent housing for half of participants in first year
Almost half of the homeless people who took refuge at Hayward’s Housing Navigation Center during its first ...
Supervisors approve Santa Rosa hotel purchase as transitional housing, resource center
The purchase of a Santa Rosa hotel to provide temporary housing for vulnerable people lacking shelter was ...
‘Pizza Lady’ keeps feeding city’s hungry as she fights to save her own home
Andrea Carla Michaels is ensnared in dual battles - struggling to feed San Francisco homeless while battling ...
Walnut Creek City Council challengers shine light on police reform, social justice issues
Several Walnut Creek City Council candidate challengers in the Nov. 3 election were either motivated to run ...
New Mountain View safe parking site marks county’s third
A third safe parking site in Santa Clara County opened in Mountain View, to provide a space where vehicle dwellers can stay safely, ...
Project Homekey funding turns Pittsburg motel into permanent supportive housing
Contra Costa County plans to turn a 174-room motel in Pittsburg into a permanent support hub to ...
Mayor lays out $446 million Covid-19 budget proposal
San Francisco Mayor London Breed Tuesday laid out a spending proposal specifically related to Covid-19. She also ...
Advocates say PGA Championship parking restrictions will displace people living in vehicles
A San Francisco advocacy group for homeless people warned Monday that more than 50 people living in ...
SF agrees to remove 300 tents from Tenderloin in lawsuit settlement
Mayor London Breed announced Friday the city has settled a lawsuit filed by Tenderloin merchants and the ...
Project Roomkey funds help shelter 90 San Mateo County homeless residents in hotel
Ninety homeless people considered at high risk have been sheltered at a San Mateo County hotel as part of the county’s efforts to ...
Rec and Park to voluntarily provide location list for safe sleeping sites
San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer said Monday that legislation requiring the Department of Recreation and Parks ...
Safe Sleeping Sites can’t come soon enough as homeless encampments grow
San Francisco leaders have shown wide support for an initiative to create Safe Sleeping Sites in an ...
City launches RV park to shelter 130 East Oakland homeless people through pandemic and beyond
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Tuesday that the city is launching an isolation trailer program to house ...
Die-in protesters ‘at wits’ end’ over mayor’s refusal to shelter homeless in hotels
Clad in black and holding red flowers, about 10 people laid on the street in front of ...
Covid-19 update: Counties ease up on limited outdoor activities, SF provides 29 RVs for homeless, state expands Farm to Table program
Public health officers of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties as well as the city of Berkeley ...
Fire department believes people occupied abandoned building next to church before fire
The Santa Rosa Fire Department is investigating a fire in an abandoned building near the Cathedral of ...
Covid-19 update: Pastor disputes Easter citation, county houses all infected homeless
There were 398 confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus cases and seven resulting deaths when shelter-in-place orders took effect ...
State partners with Motel 6 to shelter homeless, acquires more than 5,000 rooms
California has secured over 16,000 hotel rooms to shelter homeless residents during the Covid-19 pandemic, Gov. Gavin ...
Covid-19 update: DA opens probe into Gateway Care, SF surpasses 1,000 cases, Newsom tends to most vulnerable
As of Wednesday, there are more than two million confirmed cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus across ...
Supes’ unanimous vote pushes city for 8,000 hotel rooms, prioritizes homeless
San Francisco has less than two weeks to find thousands of additional hotel rooms to shelter the homeless and frontline city workers amid ...
Covid 19 update: Bay Area cases surpass 5,000, Trump versus governors showdown looms
President Donald Trump made it clear Monday that he believes it is in his own “total” power ...
Covid-19 update: Outbreak shakes SF homeless shelter, Oakland slows streets, Newsom hopeful but cautious on state trajectory
As the holidays approach for several religious communities, local and state leaders are urging people to “hold ...
Covid-19 update: SF houses domestic violence victims, judge orders four ICE detainees released, seventh patient dies from Hayward facility
Since Wednesday evening, an additional 1,774 people have died in the U.S. of complications related to Covid-19. ...
Covid-19 update: BART cuts back service, county issues isolation order, exposure prompts Moscone West reconfiguration
The number of Bay Area deaths related to Covid-19 is nearing 100, though the nine-county region saw ...
SFBay Covid-19 update: virus sweeps through Orinda facility, Contra Costa orders mass quarantine
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued guidance stating that all Americans should wear cloth face coverings as masks when ...
SF homeless shelter resident tests positive for Covid-19
San Francisco officials confirmed Thursday that a resident at one of The City’s navigation centers has tested ...
Mountain View passes $800,000 Covid-19 relief package
Ten days after passing a $500,000 rent relief package, the Mountain View City Council passed another $800,000 ...
Virtual help: Technology connects addicts with support in social distancing times
"Online support is a very important tool."
Legislators fight hospital closure amid coronavirus spread, rising homeless patient needs
A group of state legislators on Thursday called on Verity Health Systems to reverse its decision to ...
Supes approve navigation center lease, require victim data from police
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors took up two substantial issues at their Tuesday meeting: lease approval for a new navigation center and ...
County issues report after clearing Joe Rodota Trail homeless encampment
Sonoma County officials this week released a report on its effort to find shelter for homeless people ...
Sonoma County District 3 candidates agree on policy, differ on approach
Three-term Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane and former Santa Rosa City Councilman and Mayor Chris Coursey are ...
Last campers leave Sonoma County trail, some with nowhere to go
Fifty remaining homeless campers from the 250 who were camping along two miles of the Joe Rodota ...
Homeless moms call owner’s paid shelter offer ‘an insult’
One of the homeless mothers living in a vacant West Oakland house since Nov. 18 scoffed Saturday ...
As eviction nears, Wedgewood offers to pay charity to shelter Oakland moms for two months
The property owner planning to have two homeless mothers evicted next week from a West Oakland home offered Saturday to pay to shelter ...
