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There are over 2,700 homeless people in Sonoma County, 0.6% of the county's population. Much of the homeless situation in Sonoma County also is found in Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Sebastopol, and especially in terms of per capita, the Russian River area that focuses on Guerneville is roughly 4-5% homeless.
[102] [103]: 1 Homeless persons in California now number 135,000 (a 15% increase from 2015). [83] A study by the California Housing Partnership found that from 2016 to 2017 homelessness increased by 47 percent in Sacramento County (home to the state's capital, Sacramento), 36 percent in Alameda County, and 13 percent in Santa Clara County.
In 2022, the county received just under $100,000 per year for permanent supportive housing from the feds, said Jennifer Palmer, the county's director of housing and homeless services. Now, they ...
The homeless population of L.A. County increased by 65% between 2020 and 2022. [10] [11] In June 2023, L.A. County officials reported that according to a point-in-time survey, over 75,500 people were homeless in the county, which was up from 69,000 the previous year, and 70% higher than 2015. [77]
Proposition 63 may have fallen short of its promise to transform California's mental health system, but that doesn't make it a failure, said Briscoe, the former Alameda County health director.
Updated October 29, 2024 at 11:10 PM. California voters will soon decide on a high-profile ballot measure that would increase penalties for certain drug and theft crimes. Last week, CBS News ...
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office operates one jail. Santa Rita Jail, located in Dublin, California, is the primary facility that houses most people arrested or convicted of crimes in Alameda County. The Glenn Dyer Detention Facility, also known as the North County Jail, located in Downtown Oakland was closed in 2019 for budgetary reasons.
August 22, 2024 at 5:59 PM. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials cleared a homeless encampment at a California state beach Thursday, a month after Gov. Gavin Newsom directed cities and state agencies to ...