Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a May afternoon, Teresa Stratton sat on ...

Debra has been on the street for five years. She’s disabled and someone has stolen her wheelchair; now she has to push a cart ...

The burst of new laws follows a landmark Supreme Court ruling and reflects public frustration with record-high homelessness.

For the first time in nearly three years, more San Diegans found housing than became homeless in November, marking a small ...

Fentanyl fueled a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland. An annual report ...

Residents in the area have dealt with ongoing issues of encampments and trash on the embankment, but now Caltrans is working ...

Re “Street sweeps make San Diego’s homelessness crisis worse. They must end.” (Dec. 11): Dr. Diab’s report was spot-on. With ...

San Jose has started counting how many people are living along waterways in preparation for next year when encampments will be cleared due to an ordinance from Valley Water.

Darrick Jackson, a 38-year-old who’d lived in the encampment, watched trucks pull in and out of the creek Monday afternoon.

The bluffs in Del Mar recede at a rate of  6 inches annually, and in some spots, the train tracks that support many tons of ...