California to Help Provide Housing for Homeless Youth
Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – Governor Gavin Newsom announced awards to 52 California counties to…
Monday Morning Thoughts: While Grants Pass Is Disappointing, Case Out of SF Is the One to Watch
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – While Grants Pass v. Johnson overturning a lower court…
Sunday Commentary: Grants Ruling Likely to Make the Homeless Problem Worse
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Without addressing permanent supportive housing, it is difficult to see how…
Advocates Blast the Supreme Court for Ruling That Criminalizes Homelessness
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, CA – The Supreme Court handed down a long-awaited decision…
YIMBY Condemns Supreme Court for Further Criminalizing Homelessness in Grants Pass Decision
“We need our elected officials and government agencies to take urgent action to help people with immediate…
Governor Newsom Announces More Funding to Move People out of Encampments; Wraps Homelessness into RHNA Process
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA – On Thursday, Governor Newsom announced at a press…
Auditor Finds California Do More to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Its Homelessness Programs
Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – A state audit found that the state has to do…
Sunday Commentary: State Senator Touts the Success of Project Homekey in Battling Homelessness
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor While the news media has rightly focused on the failures of…
Commentary: Why Civil Commitment Is a Dangerous Solution to the Homeless Crisis
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In California, a mental health treatment bond, Prop. 1, narrowly is…
Commentary: They Want to Ban Homelessness? No, Just Encampments – and That’s the Problem
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – The headline in CalMatters caught my attention: “California…
San Francisco Moves to Stay Homeless Suit in Wake of Grants Pass Case
Special to the Vanguard San Francisco, CA – Plaintiffs in Coalition on Homelessness v. City of San…
Sunday Commentary: Criminalizing the Homeless
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In the last decade in California homelessness has gone from a…
Homekey Hits Milestone: 15,000 Homes Created Since Program Began
Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – Since the start of Homekey, the state has rapidly transformed…
Supreme Court Will Take Up ‘Grants Pass’ Homeless Case and Determine Whether Local Governments Can Perform Homeless Sweeps
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review…
Commentary: Strange Politics of Homeless Encampments
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The San Francisco Chronicle this fall noted, “Democrats like Newsom and…
Commentary: A Flash to 2006 on the Housing Crisis and Homelessness Is Revealing
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It was really interesting, I saw an op-ed from CalMatters entitled…
Commentary: Homeless Sweeps Ignore the Underlying Problem Generating Homelessness in California
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The LA Times notes that rulings from the 9th Circuit Court…
Op-Ed: Complementary Perspectives, and the Fight for the Telegraph Chess Tables
By Magellan Reyes BERKELEY, CA — The Chess Tables on Telegraph Ave, wedged on the corner of…
State Takes Action to Tackle Homelessness Crisis – But Critics Wonder If It’s Enough
Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – This week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced multiple new efforts to…
Commentary: Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week, the Orange County Register ran a piece “The Real…
