The Grants Pass Supreme Court decision said that you can clear encampments, even if you have nowhere for folks to go. This is going a step further and saying you can put people into institutions against their will.
"I'm shaking and I feel like I can't breathe. Every time I close my eyes thinking the building burn my son for four, five hours that's...I'm speechless," Huynh said.
Housing First' has proven effective in combating homelessness by providing immediate housing, which facilitates access to supports that address mental illness and substance use disorders.
The median age in Berkeley Hills' Thousand Oaks neighborhood has increased from 37 to 55 between 1980 and 2023, with one-third of residents now at retirement age.
Better data collection, improved transparency and stronger coordination practices are all areas of growth for Berkeley's Homeless Response Team, according to a report released by the City Auditor's Office.
Guillermo Medina Reyes, a 30-year-old Bay Area tattoo artist, is facing immigration court today after receiving a temporary restraining order against ICE, maintaining he has lived in the U.S. undocumented since age 6.
"This isn't about homelessness. That's not what's prohibited let alone criminalized in San Francisco and San Jose. It's about the abuse of public space, about encampments and the entire encampment subculture."
Black people in England are almost four times as likely to face homelessness as white people and substantially less likely to get social housing, according to a three-year study that revealed racial and ethnic disparities in access to housing in the UK.
