Homelessness

Three camps are owned and operated not by the city, but by Elk Island Trading Group, a landowner that flips blighted real estate.

Grants Pass re-awarded a $1.2 million homelessness grant. A Roseburg developer plans a container-home village for 150 people by summer.

Gov. Newsom introduced CARE Court to bring more people experiencing severe mental illness into treatment. It has helped fewer people than he projected, but a new law will make more people eligible for it.

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

More than one in four homeless people in Oregon are over the age of 55. As the state’s population gets older, many seniors rely on a fragile social safety net.

Experts worry liberal California will be blacklisted from federal homelessness dollars, effectively counteracting recent progress.

Staff fear the cuts will make it harder to help people facing evictions and homelessness as the state’s housing crisis persists.

In the most-comprehensive look yet at whether people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court, we found that far fewer Californians are enrolled in the mental health program than he projected.

When it comes to clearing homeless encampments, California cities are governed by a patchwork of very different policies.

The tentative agreement requires the city to ensure space for campers and fund some homeless services.

President Donald Trump wants cities to force treatment on people with severe mental illness or addiction who are living outside. An executive order signed late last week aims to remove “vagrant” individuals from streets across the country and place them in long-term institutional settings to “restore public order.”

Trump’s call to enforce bans on encampments echoes Newsom’s policy. But the president wants to upend two other core tenants of California’s homelessness response.