Los Angeles just spent $20 million converting a functioning homeless shelter into 32 units that sit completely empty four years later — at $625,000 per unit — while nobody can account for the people who were displaced when the original building closed. That scandal lands against a broader backdrop of San Francisco's drug enforcement collapse, where arrests fell to near-zero as overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year, and where 162 people have died in one nonprofit's "supportive" housing buildings since 2020. The emerging fault line in California homelessness politics is between officials pushing enforcement and treatment — like SF Mayor Lurie's new RESET Center — and progressives still defending a status quo that the body count has already judged.
The San Jose mayor who actually cut homelessness 23% wants to bring his results-first approach statewide.
A startup founder who actually delivers results vs. Sacramento's endless theater. California finally has a real choice.
SF nonprofits preside over overdose deaths while collecting billions. The city just renewed their contracts anyway.
Newsom's mental health program spent $10.7M per person while California's judges cling to broken ideology.
SF's state legislator asks Attorney General to probe missing trees instead of addressing homelessness, drug deaths, or housing.
Street outreach workers from SF to Seattle confirm what politicians refuse to admit: half of people using drugs in public already have apartments.
San Jose's mayor is weighing a run—and his track record of actually fixing homelessness has founders begging him to go statewide.
The Governor touts a 9% drop in "unsheltered" homelessness. The actual numbers tell a very different story.
First Assistant US Attorney promises 'massive' fraud prosecutions are just beginning. More arrests coming 'perhaps this month.'