Homelessness in California is a continuing and growing crisis. Individuals and families experiencing homelessness are without permanent housing largely due to a lack of affordable housing. Homelessness is often compounded by a lack of job training and supportive services to treat mental illness, substance abuse, or domestic violence.
What's Really Going on with Growing Homeless Rates?
Homelessness has doubled in the past four years, yet some observers still parrot top-down excuses for this increase.
Tiny Homes: Hope for the Homeless
Interim housing is the missing rung on the ladder to permanent housing. Tiny homes is a proven strategy and this bill makes them available statewide.
Sweeps Won’t Fix Homelessness
Instead, governments should prioritize safe, affordable, dignified, and permanent housing for all.
How to Survive Trump’s America
for those committed to the biblical call for a safe and abundant life for all, such times demand that we focus on building the strength and power of the people.
Without Housing: Trump Oligarchs Drive the Crisis
Nobody in America should be without Housing and for society to work, housing costs must track incomes in a way that makes housing both available and affordable.
Is L.A.'s Measure A Also About Seeing Black People
One-third of the region’s unhoused are Black. Funding services could be a start to investing in the equality we all need, instead of seeing it as a luxury we can’t afford — or some don’t deserve.
No on 36: Setting Critical Services Ablaze Will Not Keep Us Safe
The solution to houselessness, addiction, and theft is not returning to a failed mass incarceration experiment but serving our communities with resources and support.
How Much New Housing Do We Really Need?
Donald Trump claims that deporting millions of undocumented people would reduce the housing shortage. This engenders images of hapless families packed into cattle cars.
Majority Rule in California: Prop 5 Will Save us From the Madness
California has allowed 34% of the electorate to block affordable housing bonds. Prop 5 ends this madness allowing bonds to pass with 55% of the vote rather than 66.7%
"Housing on the Ballot" Forum Looks for Solutions
LA housing experts and front-line service providers discuss housing progress made and more solutions needed.
Prop 33 Is a Bonanza for Local Economies: Contra Your State Voter Guide
Only the State Legislative Analyst can say why he or she left out any information about the benefits to local businesses and communities that will come if Prop 33 passes.
Services Lacking to Prevent Homelessness
When I worked with people experiencing homelessness, I kept hearing about the obstacles to help. Then I experienced them myself.
Scandal-Plagued Contributors Shell Out $102.5 Million to Silence AHF and Kill Prop 33
Corporate landlords want to stop Prop 33 so they can continue to charge sky-high rents, year after year, and rake in billions in revenue off hard-working California tenants.
LA County's Homeless Programs Have and Will Continue to Fail
Measure A does not address these root causes of homelessness. The number of homeless will continue to grow. Solutions require major political and economic change.
TAKEOVER! Redefining the History and Future of Human Rights
TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a guide on housing struggles and a historical and theoretical re-articulation of the evolution of human rights.
How Did Housing Rise to the Top of the Liberal Agenda?
Every poll in California shows that housing affordability and economic anxiety are at the top of voters' concerns.
Where Can We Live?
A group of homeless folks in Grants Pass, Oregon, who had been fined and moved from place to place because they lacked shelter, took their case all the way to the Supreme Court. And in June, it ruled against them.
Yes on Prop 33: Why Have Labor Unions, Activists, and Civic Leaders Endorsed It?
Prop 33 allows cities to urgently address the housing affordability and homelessness crises, which are fueled by excessive rents, by enacting rent regulations.
Making Affordable Housing Work
The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana.
Prop 33 Can End the Rent Inflation-Homelessness Spiral Caused by Costa Hawkins
The major cause of the increasing homelessness in California is unfettered Landlord Greed, encouraged and protected by Costa Hawkins.
We've Got a Housing Crisis, Not a Squatting Crisis
The real estate lobby is using its power to advance a flurry of anti-squatter bills to push back against tenant protections enacted in the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prefab Temporary Housing to Shelter Unhoused Californians
Between the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on homeless encampments and Newsom’s executive order, communities are being empowered and encouraged to find solutions.
Does Rent Control Save Lives?
There’s no question that sky-high rents force people into homelessness, and then face the strong possibility of dying on the streets.
The Damage McMansions Create
McMansions still proliferate in Los Angeles, driving up housing costs, homelessness, and climate change.