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, ... By Bay City NewsDecember 25, 20200 Homelessness
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 ... By Bay City NewsDecember 3, 2020 East Bay
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 ... By Bay City NewsNovember 11, 2020 Coronavirus
‘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 ... By Bay City NewsOctober 13, 2020 Food
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 ... By Bay City NewsSeptember 24, 2020 East Bay
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, ... By Bay City NewsSeptember 19, 20200 Homelessness
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 ... By Bay City NewsSeptember 16, 2020 East Bay
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 ... By Jerold ChinnAugust 12, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Bay City NewsJuly 27, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Bay City NewsJune 12, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Bay City NewsMay 24, 20200 Coronavirus
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 ... By Jerold ChinnMay 19, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Jerold ChinnMay 6, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Bay City NewsMay 5, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Bay City NewsMay 1, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Jerold ChinnApril 29, 20200 Bay Area
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 ... By Bay City NewsApril 20, 2020 Homelessness
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 ... By Nik WojcikApril 18, 2020 Bay Area
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 ... By Bay City NewsApril 18, 2020 Beyond SFBay
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 ... By Nik WojcikApril 15, 2020 Bay Area
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 ... By Jerold ChinnApril 15, 20200 Coronavirus
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 ... By Jerold ChinnApril 13, 2020 Bay Area
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 āhold ... By Nik WojcikApril 10, 2020 Bay Area
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. ... By Jerold ChinnApril 9, 2020 Bay Area
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 ... By Nik WojcikApril 6, 2020 Bay Area
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 ... By Nik WojcikApril 3, 20200 Bay Area
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 ... By Jerold ChinnApril 2, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Bay City NewsMarch 29, 2020 Coronavirus
Virtual help: Technology connects addicts with support in social distancing times "Online support is a very important tool." By Bay City NewsMarch 27, 2020 Bay Area
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 ... By Bay City NewsMarch 5, 2020 Coronavirus
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 ... By Jerold ChinnFebruary 27, 20200 Crime
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 ... By Bay City NewsFebruary 13, 2020 Government
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 ... By Bay City NewsFebruary 3, 2020 Election
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 ... By Bay City NewsFebruary 1, 2020 Homelessness
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 ... By Bay City NewsJanuary 11, 2020 Housing
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 ... By Bay City NewsJanuary 11, 20200 East Bay