San Jose plans to decommission its only sanctioned tent homeless encampment months after it opened. The Taylor Street...
Bramson: Preventing homelessness is more effective than criminalizing it
This year, two bills moving through the state reveal the competing visions shaping California’s response to one of its greatest humanitarian failures. One asks how we stop people from losing housing in the first place. The other focuses on managing the consequences after people have already fallen into crisis. Assembly Bill 1924 would require California to finally create a statewide homelessness prevention strategy by coordinating agencies, identifying evidence-based practices and developing action plans focused on keeping people housed before they end up on the street. The bill recognizes something most frontline providers already know: Homelessness is rarely a sudden event....
