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With a population of about 110,000 people, about 9.7% of the total population of the Contra Costa County, Richmond is a 55.4% contributor to Contra Costa County homeless shelter beds. Homeless people from across the Bay Area are sent to Richmond shelters, making it hard for the City of Richmond to deal with the city's own homeless population.
In 2012, the Bill Wilson Center finished developing Peacock Commons, a two-story, 28-unit housing complex for homeless young adults between 18 and 25. It bought the complex in 2007 and began renovating it in February 2012. Residents began moving into Peacock Commons in April 2012. Rent is subsidized by Santa Clara County Mental Health and paid ...
A tent city on East 12th Street in Oakland, California, set up by local homeless people, 2019 Homeless man in Fresno, California, 2019. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that more than 181,399 people were experiencing homelessness in California in January 2023.
According to the 2024 point-in-time count, which provides a snapshot of homelessness on a given night, the number of homeless individuals in California increased to approximately 172,000.
Street Spirit was co-founded by Sally Hindman, a homeless activist and Quaker, and Terry Messman, who proposed the idea to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in 1995. The newspaper was created to report on issues related to homelessness in Alameda County and the broader East Bay Area.
The approved California State Budget for fiscal year 2024-25 reduced the budget for all state courts by $97 million. As a result of those cuts, the Superior Court of Alameda County had its yearly ...
Berkeley, California. Berkeley (/ ˈbɜːrkli / BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
www.hayward-ca.gov. Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California, United States, in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 162,954 as of 2020, [10] Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area, and the third largest in Alameda County. [12] Hayward was ranked as the 36th most populous ...