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California state agency reorganization puts new focus on homelessness
From the reorganization will come two new agencies: the California Housing and Homelessness Agency and the Business and Consumer Services Agency (BCSA). The CHHA will focus on coordinating efforts to ...
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California Creates Housing-Focused Agency
Previously, the state’s housing and homelessness programs fell under a grabbag department that also regulates the alcohol ...
San Jose has just as many homeless people as it did two years ago, despite sheltering many of them
New data shows the number of unhoused residents has hardly budged since 2023 — though more of them are sheltered.
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California, Epicenter of the Nation’s Housing Crisis, Is Finally Getting a Housing Agency
Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s organizational chart, the reorg is supposed ...
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Federal funding cuts, cost of living dominate questions as Democrats end town hall series in Utah
As Utah Republican Rep. Burgess Owens has yet to host a town hall meeting this term, California Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs ...
‘What if we stay in Mexico?’ With chances in the U.S. dashed, migrants make new lives south of border
The plan had always been to seek asylum in the U.S. But somewhere on the journey between their home in El Salvador and the ...
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KFF Health News: In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency
Los Angeles is defying President Donald Trump’s agenda as he advocates for forced mental health and addiction treatment for ...
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In a nation growing hostile toward drugs and homelessness, Los Angeles tries leniency
Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or get medication for addiction treatment.