By Jayden Park On August 11, two top officials from the Trump administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, visited Los Angeles to criticize how the city handles homelessness. They held a news conference at the Dream Center, a faith-based recovery and housing program …
By Jayden Park California’s push to clear homeless encampments off state highways picked up three new partners this week. On July 28, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom’s office announced that Ontario, San Bernardino, and San Diego had signed Encampment Delegated Maintenance Agreements with the California Department of Transportation, bringing the statewide total to 13 city and …
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By Jayden Park For more than two decades, the federal government’s primary tool for funding local homelessness services has been the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, which every year channels billions of dollars to nonprofits, cities, and states through HUD. Since 2025, however, that funding stream has been caught in an escalating legal fight between …
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By Jayden Park Native Americans and Alaska Natives experience the second-highest rate of homelessness of any group in the United States, a disparity rooted not in individual circumstance but in centuries of expropriation of land from Indigenous communities and genocide. This has led to what researchers describe as multi-generational homelessness, where Natives are perpetually trapped …
By: Jayden Park Growing up in Washington, I would frequently encounter people experiencing homelessness, whether it was through walking past encampments when visiting Seattle or seeing people sleeping in bus shelters during Bellevue winters. Serving on the Bellevue Youth Council at the time also broadened how I understood the issue, especially when I would be …
By Jayden Park It is without a doubt that homelessness has been decreasing. Or has it? Whenever the search term ‘California homelessness’ is used, a plethora of different articles come up, with all of them saying completely contradictory things. In one case, an article claiming that homelessness was at an ‘all-time high’ would be next …
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By Jayden Park After he was elected on November 5, 2024, President Donald Trump claimed that he would “use every tool, lever and authority to get the homeless off our streets.” Most recently, in August, he said that the federal government will be “removing homeless encampments from all over our parks” to rescue the U.S. …
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By Jayden Park As levels of homelessness reach a record high, dialogue around camping bans has gained traction. Since the Grants Pass vs. Johnson Supreme Court case six months ago that made homeless crackdowns easier, more than a hundred cities have banned people from sleeping outside despite increasing rates of homelessness. The court ruled on …
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By Jayden Park As levels of homelessness reach a record high, dialogue around camping bans has gained traction. Since the Grants Pass vs. Johnson Supreme Court case six months ago that made homeless crackdowns easier, more than a hundred cities have banned people from sleeping outside despite increasing rates of homelessness. The court ruled on …
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By Jayden Park The northern city of Fremont voted on February 11th to criminalize “aiding” or “abetting” homeless camps. Anyone who violated “aiding, abetting or concealing” a homeless encampment would face a $1,000 fine or six months in jail. It is unlikely that this ordinance is directly connected to the Grants v. Pass decision in …
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