Homelessness Archives - Oakland Voices

Media stories too often focus on severe mental illnessness, but unhoused people have other needs.

Encampments have shifted towards lower-income and Black and Latino neighborhoods in East Oakland.

A new homelessness strategy is sweeping California

Federal legislation and state budget cuts put mental health programs for unhoused people at risk.

California mayors warn homelessness funding cuts could reverse progress and deepen racial disparities.

Oakland rolled back cooperative effforts of managing homelessness, advocates say.

Unhoused families said they lacked housing while waiting for affordable complex to open.

A lack of federal funding could stall progress in reducing homelessness.

Criminalizing homelessness does not solve the issue, it makes it harder for people to survive.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s homelessness task force targets encampments.