The Sacramento Homeless Union filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The complaint alleges the City of Sacramento unlawfully terminated its Motel Shelter Program, resulting in the mass displacement of vulnerable residents, including families with children, seniors, veterans, and individuals with disabilities, on June 1.
A Sacramento resident has filed a fair housing complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, alleging her landlord initiated rent increases and subsequent eviction proceedings after her adult son, diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, began a temporary residency.
A coalition of environmental and public health organizations is campaigning against a California Chamber of Commerce-backed ballot initiative that would weaken environmental safeguards, reduce public participation and shift cleanup costs from developers to taxpayers.
The Working Lands Biomass Utilization Advisory Committee has been launched to accelerate climate-smart biomass solutions across the eight-county Capital Region, aiming to unlock economic opportunity, create jobs, and reduce wildfire risk.
The Sacramento Bee’s reporting on the deportation of a Sacramento mother in less than 24 hours reveals that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement strategy is reaching far beyond the caricature often presented by its defenders, targeting law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules and relied on government assurances.
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge denied an accused man’s request for release on his own recognizance pending trial on a petty theft charge, citing his prior felony history and failures to appear as indicators that he would not comply with court orders.
California’s housing crisis is being driven by political hesitation, outdated zoning choices, and a regulatory and fiscal framework that often undermines the goals of elected leaders, resulting in low housing production and rising costs.
Cornerstone, a mixed-income affordable housing development in South Sacramento, has been awarded a Bronze World Habitat Award for its role in affordable housing, homelessness prevention and community development, providing housing for over 400 people and offering financial coaching, support services and opportunities for residents to participate in community decision-making.
California’s 2025 legislative session delivered meaningful progress on housing, but mounting regulatory and cost barriers continue to undermine the state’s competitiveness, according to Orange County Business Council President and CEO Jeffrey Ball.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of SB 79 represents a modest step towards addressing California’s housing crisis, but it is not enough to fix the state’s broken housing system and will not result in the necessary affordable housing being built.
SB 485, authored by Assemblymember Eloise Reyes, has passed the Legislature and now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom, establishing new protections to ensure that Chief Public Defenders cannot be removed from their posts without cause.
Mayor Kevin McCarty of Sacramento announced the construction of 135 tiny homes at the Roseville Road Shelter‐and‐Service Campus, providing a cost-effective solution to the city’s homelessness crisis and complementing other initiatives such as safe parking and motel conversions.
Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the creation of the State Action for Facilitation on Encampments (SAFE) Task Force to coordinate state agencies to remove homeless encampments and expand access to shelter and supportive services in California’s ten largest cities.
Sacramento has successfully met the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, a milestone celebrated by regional and federal officials as a public health and environmental achievement.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is considering a proposal to develop more of the North Natomas basin, which is a floodplain surrounded by levees that were originally so weak that a grant to expand regional sewer contained a $6 million penalty if that capacity were used to serve North Natomas, and the land speculators controlling North Natomas were able to get the penalty waived and receive $43 million in levee improvement grants, which is bad for the public realm and the environment.
Local leaders gathered to mark the grand opening of Powell’s Landing, a new permanent supportive housing project that offers 69 units for adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness, featuring on-site support services and amenities, and is being held up as an example of public-private collaboration in addressing homelessness and housing insecurity.
Joseph Allen Davis, 19, of Sacramento, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, after police determined he was the shooter in an April 2025 shooting at Rainbow City Park in Davis.
California has seen a decrease in homelessness, with the city and county of Los Angeles experiencing a 4% drop in total homelessness, but recent budget cuts threaten continued progress.
The trial of a man accused of murdering five of his infant children between 1992 and 2001 has been postponed once again, despite an emotional victim impact statement from his daughter, and is now scheduled to begin on October 20.
A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of all 574 individuals currently on California’s death row, citing systemic injustice, racial bias, and irreparable harm.