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Jane Vaughan/JPRThe tentative agreement requires the city to ensure space for campers and fund some homeless services. -
Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBPresident 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.”
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It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed how cities in California and beyond can respond to homeless encampments, allowing them to clear camps and arrest people for sleeping outside — even when there’s nowhere else to sleep. -
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offers support for housing and people experiencing homelessness; it appears to be the next agency facing layoffs as the Trump administration continues its mission to scale back the size of the federal government. -
The nonprofit Mobile Integrative Navigation Team, or MINT, now has a permanent home. -
Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week the state will dole out another $920 million to localities to combat homelessness. The new funds come with more accountability measures – some that have already drawn criticism. -
Cities across California have passed measures banning or restricting encampments following the U.S. Supreme Court giving the go-ahead in a ruling out of Grants Pass, Oregon. Now some attorneys who represent homeless campers are champing at the bit to put these new ordinances before a jury -
Homeless people in Grants Pass now have more options for legally camping in the city. -
Outreach workers in the Bay Area city of Fremont worry the new ordinance could target them, despite assurances from the city. -
Every January, across the country, local social service groups set out to count the number of homeless people in their communities. Data from what’s called the Point in Time Count is sent to the federal government and used to decide how funding is distributed. JPR reporter Jane Vaughan recently followed one team in Grants Pass. -
The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. -
The non-profit group Disability Rights Oregon and five disabled homeless residents have sued the city of Grants Pass claiming new camping restrictions violate state laws. -
On Friday morning, homeless residents dragged tarps and carried piles on their backs, heaping their belongings just outside the fence. They were given until 9 a.m. to get their possessions off the city-owned site. -
Despite billions spent and thousands of people helped, the most recent available data shows homelessness is still increasing in the state.
