Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 255, which would have allowed state funding for abstinence-based recovery housing as part of California’s homelessness response system, citing the need to remain aligned with the evidence-based Housing First policy.
Houston has been successful in reducing homelessness through a housing-first strategy, but the latest data shows that even the most celebrated local strategies are fragile without sustained federal funding and affordable housing.
The American Psychological Association has warned that a new Trump administration executive order on homelessness could have serious consequences for mental health care, increase criminalization of vulnerable people and roll back decades of progress in evidence-based treatment.
Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis was created by a century of political choices, including the criminalization of poverty, the dismantling of mental health institutions, and the construction of luxury housing, and can be solved by building affordable housing and providing services to those in need.
In the United States, we talk a lot about ending homelessness and reducing mass incarceration, yet we…
The impact of the devastating fires in Los Angeles on the housing crisis, of course, can’t be…
In an op-ed for MSNBC, Ned Resnikoff, the policy director for California YIMBY, noted the bleak news…
Davis, CA – I have written a series of commentaries opposing a criminalization-based approach to clearing homeless…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – There was an interesting op-ed that appeared in…
By Rena Abdusalam SACRAMENTO, CA – Disability Rights California and other progressive organizations said this week they…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – In 2021, the city of Davis along with…
Special to the Vanguard Washington, DC – Calling it the most ambitious effort “by any administration to…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – Are “liberals” to be blamed for California’s homelessness…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor If California and local communities therein want to address their homelessness…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – The Governor’s proposal for CARE has blazed through…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – For several years now, neighbors have complained about…
KOMO news in Seattle this year produced the documentary, “Seattle is Dying,” which chronicles the homeless problem…
Here we go again I thought as I saw a packed room on Tuesday. It had been…
On Monday at the Community Chambers, Rohit Naimpally, the Senior Research and Policy Manager at J-Pal presented…
By Eve Garrow After she became homeless, Callie Rutter entered Bridges at Kraemer Place, an emergency shelter…