Homelessness is falling in parts of the Bay Area after years of major public investment, with Alameda County the latest to report a significant decline, even as officials warn that progress could be ...

In 2020, Alameda County voters thought they were approving a special tax to fight homelessness, but a judge says the county can use the hundreds of millions in sales tax dollars however it wants. Now, ...

Despite appeals from more than a dozen local mayors asking for all of the $1.8 billion in expected Measure W funding to be used to address homelessness in Alameda County, the Board of Supervisors ...

CLEAR URGENCY Between 2019 and 2024, the county’s homeless population rose 18% to nearly 9,450 people, with Oakland accounting for more than half. (Photo by NeoBatfreak, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia ...

Alameda County is taking a head count of all the people who live on the streets or in shelters Thursday. The county is hoping to see a decrease in the number of unhoused people like they did two years ...

A coalition of elected officials and community groups is urging the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to spend hundreds of millions in recently freed up sales tax revenue on homelessness programs ...

While houselessness in Berkeley decreased by 45% between 2022 and 2024, the city’s Homeless Response Team, or HRT, has faced difficulties with data collection, coordination, communication and placing ...