As temperatures drop below 38 degrees, Santa Cruz County is opening severe weather shelters to provide warmth and safety for ...

SANTA CRUZ — Wednesday morning, Santa Cruz police officers, community service officers and staff from the city’s Homeless Outreach Team cleared out a large encampment of homeless people in the Harvey ...

As temperatures plunge into the 30s come nightfall, Santa Cruz County has approved overnight severe weather shelters for homeless people ...

Housing advocate Don Lane has invited journalist and author Brian Barth to talk to the community – and to his class of 25 UC Santa Cruz students studying homelessness – to discuss why encampments ...

Two recently filed lawsuits accuse the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of illegally going over Congress’ head to make massive changes to the way federal homelessness funds are ...

Monterey and Santa Cruz counties have taken measures to help shelter unhoused people throughout their respective counties.

In July 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California agencies to “urgently” close homeless encampments on state property, aiming to show local officials that the state is leading by example in ...

Clearing an encampment is one of the most complicated and fraught tasks any California city can take on when responding to homelessness. How they handle that challenge varies widely. CalMatters asked ...