The federal government's annual "point-in-time" homelessness count is used by city and county governments across the country to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.

A May report by the Public Policy Institute of California found that nearly 300,000 K-12 students in California were ...

California counties are reporting decreases in homelessness, suggesting the state is finally making progress in solving one of its most difficult and persistent problems. But even as Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

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Maybe the way out of California’s homelessness crisis is to prevent it in the first place, rather than focusing only on people who have already lost their housing. That’s the thinking behind a program ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation, ...

As California spends unprecedented billions of dollars to bring homeless people off the street, state lawmakers quietly approved new rules this summer requiring local governments to complete annual ...