San Jose hopes community will be receptive to tiny homes proposal
Today we're getting our first look at what proposed tiny home communities in San Jose might be like. The option, intended to combat a housing shortage, was met with public outcry at previous public meetings. But city officials hope people may be more receptive, once they see the renderings.
Oakland: City opens winter shelters for homeless
The shift to cold, wet weather is bringing more shelter beds into the mix in Oakland.
Oakland approves city's first 'outdoor navigation center' for homeless in 40 Tuff sheds
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf applauded the City Council's vote Tuesday night to award contracts to two nonprofit groups to provide social services and site management at the city's first outdoor navigation center for the homeless.
The homeless defy stereotypes in wealthy Silicon Valley
Homeless advocates and city officials say it's outrageous that in the shadow of a booming tech economy - where young millionaires dine on $15 wood-grilled avocado and think nothing of paying $1,000 for an iPhone X - thousands of families can't afford a home. Many of the homeless work regular jobs, in some cases serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has...
Tech, housing boom creates homeless crisis on West Coast, especially evident in Silicon Valley
Homelessness is not new on the West Coast. But interviews with local officials and those who serve the homeless in California, Oregon and Washington - coupled with an Associated Press review of preliminary homeless data - confirm it's getting worse. People who were once able to get by, even if they suffered a setback, are now pushed to the streets because housing has become so expensive.
'Burners Without Borders' provides fire victims with temporary housing
The North Bay is getting creative at finding housing, at least temporary housing, for fire victims. One concept: shipping containers that have been converted for sleeping.
Santa Rosa supes considering allowing disaster emergency housing on agriculture land
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is exploring a proposal to allow temporary use and rental of existing primary dwellings and farm family dwellings on agricultural parcels for residents displaced by the wildfires in this month.
San Francisco judge declines to block eviction of homeless camp near Berkeley BART tracks
A federal judge in San Francisco today turned down a bid by five residents of a homeless camp near BART tracks in South Berkeley for a preliminary injunction blocking their eviction by the transit agency.
Judge orders Berkeley to submit plan for sheltering all homeless residents
In a follow-up to a ruling on a homeless encampment on Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco today ordered the city of Berkeley to come up with "a plan to shelter substantially all of Berkeley's homeless" during the coming winter.
Santa Rosa's homeless make room for others displaced by fire
Darla Anderson says she's been homeless in Santa Rosa for months. She says since the firestorm she's noticed a difference.
Federal judge temporarily blocks BART from evicting Berkeley homeless encampment
A federal judge today temporarily blocked BART from evicting a prominent homeless encampment on their property in Berkeley at the Oakland border.
Woman found dead at Berkeley homeless encampment tentatively IDd as 40-YO
Police said today they are investigating the death of a woman in her 20s whose body was found this morning at a Berkeley homeless encampment just north of 63rd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Homeless couple anxiously await baby, but kids not allowed in shelter
A homeless couple in San Jose is about to welcome a baby into the world, but children are not allowed in the shelter where the couple is staying.
Oakland approves homeless ordinance to allow ‘tuff sheds' as temporary solution
The Oakland City Council took a step Tuesday toward addressing the homeless crisis. Members approved a measure to move people from encampments and into temporary shelters called 'tuff sheds' as they wait for permanent housing.
San Francisco to build modular housing for homeless on SoMa site
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)-- San Francisco is moving ahead with plans to use modular units to speed up the production and lower the cost of housing homeless residents, city officials announced today.
"God was telling me to go deeper:" Oakland chef feeds homeless after losing everything in fire
Thomas Patrick Former lost almost everything in his Starfood Fish Cafe in a fire a year ago. Now, the Oakland chef is feeding the homeless.
SF, Oakland officials urge governor to sign bill streamlining approvals for homeless shelters
San Francisco and Oakland city officials today urged Gov. Jerry Brown to sign legislation that would make it easier to build homeless shelters and supportive housing by easing some building and safety standards and streamlining the approval process.
Oakland mayor proposes navigation center for city's homeless population
OAKLAND (BCN) Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is asking the City Council to approve an outdoor navigation center that she said would move homeless people from encampments into temporary shelter as they wait for permanent housing.
Tipping Point pledges $100 million to chronically homeless
Nonprofit foundations are an integral part in helping the homeless issue around the Bay Area.
WATCH: 2-part special on homelessness in the Bay Area
It is estimated there are 30,000 people in the Bay Area who are living on the streets. It is an issue that affects all walks of life - not only a humanitarian crisis, but also a health concern. Our 2-part special takes a closer at homelessness in the Bay Area. Part one gives us a glimpse into the lives of people who are homeless and how they got there. In part two, we sit down with city...