Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Gavin Newsom gives his final State of the State address as governor at the California Capitol in Sacramento on Thursday, Jan.

Sprawling homelessness is one of the most chronic frustrations in Los Angeles. Now we find out the LA City Council spent an ...

California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population, at about 116,000 individuals. That is down from 124,000 in 2024, but up 7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governor Gavin Newsom makes remarks during a press conference about homelessness funding in San Francisco on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 ...

California counties are reporting decreases in homelessness, suggesting the state is finally making progress in solving one of its most difficult and persistent problems. But even as Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Homelessness — and affordability, housing availability and myriad other issues tangential to a very visible problem in California — is among the many concerns Californians have that the bevy of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Open-air heroin use. Sidewalks smeared in human feces. Block-long homeless camps and people with severe mental illnesses wading through traffic in socks and hospital clothes. You would ...

Sacramento County, like many communities across the state, hasn’t attempted to physically count the number of homeless people since January 2024, per federal guidelines. Yet on Thursday from ...