The new policy approved Tuesday shifts the city from managing encampments to clearing them, allowing workers to act without ...

The city council's decision will allow the clearing of homeless encampments without first offering immediate housing to ...

Oakland has approved a major change in how the city handles homeless encampments, voting Tuesday to adopt a new policy that ...

The Oakland City Council voted to approve a new policy this week that makes it easier for officials to remove homeless ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A homeless encampment on Fifth Street, off of Mandela Parkway, is seen from the West Oakland BART station. Mayor Barbara Lee's ...

This week on The Final Straw Radio, we’re featuring an interview with three participants in the feature length documentary Wood Street, about the community that formed in a parking lot at 1707 Wood ...

In 2025, Oakland city leaders celebrated the completion of a new apartment complex designed to get people off the streets, but months have passed and it remains closed. The Phoenix Apartments in West ...

Some residents of a tiny home shelter for homeless people in West Oakland are refusing to leave, a day after city officials closed the site. Among them is Sandra Martin, who said Wednesday morning she ...

Between 2020 and 2024, Long Beach experienced a minimal but incremental decrease in chronic homelessness that was interrupted ...