LA City Controller Determines that City of Los Angeles Underspent on Homelessness by Over Half a Billion Dollars in FY2024
Los Angeles – The city of Los Angeles spent only $599 million and encumbered $195 million of…
U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Will Allow More Aggressive Homeless Encampment Removals
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Guest Commentary: Supreme Court Ruling Will Not Solve America’s Housing Crisis
By Julie Akins In a matter of days the United States Supreme Court will decide Johnson v….
ACLU Brief Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Eighth Amendment Protections in Grants Pass v. Johnson
Brief Argues that the Constitutional Prohibition on ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishments’ Prevents Cities from Arresting or Fining…
Federal Judge Turns Down Sacramento Homeless Union Request to Extend Order Protecting Unhoused from Elements
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – When a federal judge ruled Wednesday…
Homeless Battle: City of Sacramento Responds to ‘Spurious’ Threats by District Attorney – States City ‘Well-Represented’ if DA Sues
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho—already…
Guest Commentary: How to Handle Homelessness – Give Them Money
By Mark Dempsey Locally, and throughout California, there’s an awful lot of hand-wringing about the (growing) homeless…
Homeless Union Tells Sacramento DA It Will File State Bar Complaint
Homeless Union Warns DA They Will Be Challenging His License If He Doesn’t Stop Threatening City of…
City of Sacramento Will Ask 9th Circuit Appeals Court to Reverse Homeless Union’s Injunction to Stop Sweeps of Homeless Camps
Union Claims City Trying to Evict Disabled Vet, Family By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Bee’s Story Illustrates the Depth of the Affordable Housing Shortfall
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Every so often, someone comes on the Vanguard and argues that…
Unhoused to Be Displaced Back to the Streets from Sacramento Shelter
Special to the Vanguard Statement of the Sacramento Homeless Union on “Sacramento Self-Help Housing” ending contract with the…
Guest Commentary: Where Are All the Homeless Poor Coming From? Attacks!
by Mark Dempsey In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under…
Commentary: Critics Complain That the Sky Is Falling Even As We Fall Well Short of Our Housing Needs
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – California is facing a multipronged crisis—housing, affordable housing…
Biden Administration Releases Plan to Reduce Homelessness by 25 Percent by 2025
Special to the Vanguard Washington, DC – Calling it the most ambitious effort “by any administration to…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Cost of Housing Is Part of the Equation in Housing Insecurity and Homelessness, but Not the Full Picture
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – Are “liberals” to be blamed for California’s homelessness…
Commentary: Houston, We Have a Solution – Why the City Might Be the Model for Dealing with Homelessness
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor If California and local communities therein want to address their homelessness…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Starter Homes for Housing Crisis; Tiny Homes for Homeless?
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor One of the biggest facets of the housing crisis is that…
Commentary: Governor Gives Us the CARE Act When What We Need Is Housing for the Homeless
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – A pointed column this week by Josh Gohlke…
Sacramento Homeless Preliminary Injunction Granted in Part by Judge
Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – On Friday, Federal District Court Judge Troy Nunley granted in…
Guest Commentary: Sacramento Shooting Devastates Unhoused Family
By Crystal Sanchez On Saturday April 16th 2022 a shooting took place. Inside the vehicle was an…
