A tropical disease common in developing countries has spread through a Berkeley homeless encampment while courts blocked cleanup for 16 months—a sign of how legal battles over homeless policy are now producing concrete public health crises. Meanwhile, investigations are exposing staggering dysfunction across the state: a $20 million Los Angeles housing project sits empty at $625,000 per unit, BART admitted it knew about an encampment before it burned and shut down the Transbay Tube for 12 hours, and San Francisco data shows drug arrests collapsing to near-zero as overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year. The emerging picture is of a system that has failed on every front—enforcement, treatment, and housing—with a rising death toll to show for it.
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.'