homelessness in Santa Cruz, California

Kindness Reunites 67-Year-Old Homeless Man With Birth MotherThanks to an act of kindness by an Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy, a 67-year-old man living on the street in the East Bay was recently able to meet his birth mother in a reunion 65 years in the making. Teen Girl Wanted For Texas Homicide ...

SANTA CRUZ >> In less than three months, Santa Cruz voters will consider upping their bill at the cash register, with a proposed new city sales tax measure on the ... projects that are coming due, under spending in public safety initiatives, and new needs such as ongoing efforts to address homelessness.

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SACRAMENTO >> As California lawmakers wrestle over how to spend — or save — an estimated $6.1 billion budget surplus, a bipartisan coalition of ... It will compete with other state priorities, from housing the homeless to health care subsidies, and it's unclear whether Brown — who has line-item veto ...

SACRAMENTO >> As California lawmakers wrestle over how to spend — or save — an estimated $6.1 billion budget surplus, a bipartisan coalition of ... It will compete with other state priorities, from housing the homeless to health care subsidies, and it's unclear whether Brown — who has line-item veto ...

Profile: Donahue Farrow, who is homeless, finds freedom in his bicycle. He was recently displaced when an encampment by the Santa Ana River was removed. [The Los Angeles Times]. • High speed rail could be disastrous for wildlife in the Santa Cruz Mountains, according to a study. [The Mercury News].

In this Wednesday file photo, Oakland Mayor, Libby Schaaf, center, discusses California's growing homeless crisis at a news conference in Sacramento Schaaf has been at odds with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and federal immigration officials after warning last month about potential raids in ...

Santa Barbara, California, a coastal enclave boasting beautiful beachfront Spanish missions and a nearly $2 billion tourism industry, offers a postcard ... This squeeze—increasing housing costs and stagnating wages—has created a scenario where some people working full-time jobs are living in homeless ...

California is home to more than one-fifth of the nation's homeless people, and the numbers are continuing to grow. .... Five California cities—Santa Cruz, Inglewood, Glendale, Long Beach, and Pasadena—have new rent control ordinances on upcoming ballots, potentially adding to the 15 cities with existing ...

On Wednesday, the Santa Cruz Police Department conducted a "Homeless Assessment Outreach" operation in which officers attempted to make contact with every homeless person in the city in one day. Santa Cruz is home to a large unsheltered population, with numerous encampments on public property ...

Mayor Eric M. Garcetti of Los Angeles was the latest to weigh in, discussing what he said was the absence of state assistance in helping cities deal with the homeless. Mr. Garcetti has come under fire for a major homelessness problem in Los Angeles, the subject of a series of scathing editorials in The Los ...

SANTA CRUZ — State Park Rangers teamed up with Santa Cruz Police and Santa Cruz County workers early Wednesday to clear away a homeless camp that has ... Modeled after a successful transitional camp in San Diego, the River Street Camp will be the first of its kind on the Central California Coast.

TCPalm.com reports Perry Martin of Fort Pierce said he had assumed his orange tabby named Thomas Jr., or T2 for short, had died in traffic. Advertisement. Martin moved in with a friend after Hurricane Jeanne clobbered the state in 2004. A few days later, T2 escaped the home and never returned.

The Santa Cruz Veterinary Street Outreach, founded in October by Dr. Kelly DeBaene, launched its initial outreach at the Watsonville Project Homeless Connect. Still in its early stages, the program aims to provide basic veterinary care for animals of pet owners experiencing homelessness in Santa Cruz ...

San Diego was struck by a deadly Hepatitis A outbreak in its homeless encampments last fall that killed 20 people, according to the California Department of Public Health. Los Angeles, Monterey and Santa Cruz also have had cases, including one death in Santa Cruz. “Homelessness is not just an issue.

The Santa Cruz County Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, Youth Advisory Board and Homeless Action Partnership are very pleased to release an Invitation for Innovative Proposals to address homelessness among local youth. In January 2017, Santa Cruz County was one of 10 communities ...

“If you look at the streets in almost any city in California,” Chiu said Monday, “it's clear we have an enormous homelessness crisis, and I think the Legislature ... If a proposed development is made up entirely of affordable housing, offers support services for homeless residents, and meets a city's zoning rules, ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a homeless man found dead with others believed to be his girlfriend and their two children in a parked van in Southern California had a lengthy rap sheet. Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman for California's corrections agency, said Saturday that 41-year-old ...

Part of their goal is to form public-private partnerships to ensure the federal government continues to fund federal housing and homeless assistance. In Arizona, more than 40,000 people are homeless, according to the 2016 Arizona Department of Economic Security report on homelessness. From 2015 to ...

(AP) — The Orange County Public Works department says 404 tons of debris has been removed from a former homeless encampment where more than 700 people lived until they were ... The homeless camp once stretched more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) on a trail alongside the Santa Ana River.

SACRAMENTO >> Six leading candidates for California governor agreed Thursday that it's too hard to build new homes in California and offered wide ranging solutions to rein in exploding housing costs and rising homelessness. The candidates spoke separately at a conference in Sacramento organized ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Randall “Blue” Jones has been sleeping outside in Santa Cruz for the past four months. For some 17 years, he had worked as a caretaker for a marijuana grow house in Prunedale. That job ended, he said, with the eve of California recreational marijuana legalization. Jones, an artist and ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Officials in Southern California's Orange County have reversed a plan to build emergency homeless shelters in three cities ... the county without a plan to implement a judge's request to find appropriate shelter for a few hundred homeless people — many of whom were moved last ...

SANTA CRUZ >> State housing department staff are working on guidelines for 15 new laws designed to help solve the housing crisis and more legislation ... The group is part of a larger network called California YIMBY, a grassroots movement supporting legislation that encourages less expensive housing.