San Jose officials on Saturday announced plans for an encampment ban covering a half-mile stretch of downtown’s Guadalupe River, a first-of-its-kind policy that represents the latest push by city leaders to further clamp down on unmanaged homeless sites. The city used $2 million in state funding last fall to clear roughly 200 people with tents … Read more
Every day outreach worker Greg Cook tries to connect dozens of homeless Torontonians with one of the city’s busy shelters, mostly, he says, without success. Those efforts become even more difficult during weeks of freezing cold temperatures, when demand is highest but access to resources remains low. Sometimes, Cook says the people he is trying … Read more
Coming up on one year as leader of the 12th-largest city in the United States, Matt Mahan says he’s troubled by the slow pace at which San Jose is building shelter for homeless residents leaving encampments, an effort he made a key focus of his campaign for mayor and one that could define his legacy … Read more
In an effort to shrink the number of homeless people living on city streets, San Jose’s mayor said he is considering sanctioned encampment sites for those residents — an approach that may be unique in its scale and more permanent than what other Bay Area cities have tried. Envisioned by Mayor Matt Mahan as “safe … Read more
Homeless encampments have been multiplying across Ontario since the pandemic, but experts say this visible symptom of the national housing crisis has been a long time coming. With limited shelter space, a lack of social housing, increasing cost of home ownership and ballooning rents, more and more people are left with few options but to … Read more