A person, curled in a blanket, slept on top of a discarded mattress and box spring on the corner of an East Oakland street. That person counts. At dawn Wednesday morning, I was riding around East ...

Two years ago, as a stopgap measure, Oakland set up toilets, washstands and garbage cans at two of the city’s biggest homeless camps. It was supposed to be the first step toward getting people off the ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced this week that she is creating a new city department to tackle homelessness. Lee said the Office of Homelessness Solutions will be responsible for the ...

Oakland County's Safe Tonight Shelter Fund connects homeless individuals to after-hours shelter spaces at local churches ...

Homelessness is a growing problem in Oakland, both on the streets and now at City Hall as well. Mayor Libby Schaaf recently laid out an ambitious plan to deal with the city’s quickly spreading ...

When a homeless couple in Oakland moved into a $4 million Piedmont home last year, they didn’t know if they’d be staying for a few weeks or a few months. It’s not every day a homeowner in one of the ...

About two hours after six Bay Area counties announced “shelter in place” orders, Larry Taylor sauntered on 45th Street in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. Taylor, who is homeless, held a cigarette in ...

Oakland city crews have pulled 75 truckloads — about 250 tons — of debris out of the sprawling homeless encampment that surrounds the Fruitvale Home Depot in the past two weeks. “And we still have 50 ...

Marcus Emery is worried he’ll soon get evicted. Just two months ago, I wrote a column about Emery, who was homeless for almost two years, moving into a one-bedroom apartment on MacArthur Boulevard.