Volunteers give away meals donated by a local bakery, Love Bite Bakers, plus blankets, hand warmers, hygiene kits and provisions for pets. Her team goes to encampments in a dozen different locations.

A California agency that previously warned Oakland could lose $45 million in state funding for homelessness over a more aggressive encampment removal policy has since pulled back its threat.

Next week, San Mateo County and Contra Costa County will kick off their own point-in-time counts. Typically, counties tally ...

Homeless mothers who were evicted last week from an Oakland house where they were squatting plan to move back after speculators agreed to sell the property to a nonprofit organization, it was ...

Organizations in Oakland County are getting a snapshot of the area's homeless population as volunteers tally the number of ...

Of the dozens of people we interviewed at an Oakland homeless camp over the three months I spent getting to know its residents, Gilberto Gonzalez Rojas stood out for his sartorial selections. As we ...

Oakland city officials issued a call Tuesday for 500 volunteers for the 2026 Point-In-Time Count on Jan. 22. The PIT count is a census of people experiencing homelessness that is mandated by the U.S.