A tropical disease common in the developing world is now spreading through Berkeley homeless encampments while courts block cleanup—the latest sign that legal paralysis is making California's homelessness crisis a literal public health emergency. Across the state, billions in spending are producing little: LA just spent $20 million converting a functioning homeless hotel into 32 units that remain empty four years later, at $625,000 per unit. Meanwhile, new data shows SF's collapse in drug enforcement coincided with overdose deaths tripling to 810 per year—and the nonprofits running taxpayer-funded housing are responding by teaching residents how to use drugs more safely.
San Jose's mayor reduced homelessness by a quarter while Sacramento fumbled. Now he's bringing receipts to the governor's race.
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.'