Homeless encampments are a part of the landscape in many U.S. cities. In Oakland, California, one of the longest-standing and most well-known encampments was at Union Point Park. It was right by the ...

The site of what was once a sprawling homeless encampment in West Oakland has become an affordable housing complex for ...

Prescott Station opens in West Oakland, offering 235 affordable apartments on a former homeless encampment site.

An emotional, seven-hour City Council committee meeting on a controversial proposal to crack down on homeless camps ended in ambiguity Wednesday evening. Councilmember Ken Houston wants Oakland to ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- An audit of Oakland's response to the rise in homeless encampments found the city was "not adequately prepared to shoulder such a massive project." "The city did not have a ...

The Wood Street encampment in West Oakland was at one point the largest homeless encampment Northern California. In 2023, the city of Oakland completed its final evictions of the unhoused residents ...

Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about sprawling homeless camps that have taken root across the city. Now the ...

City officials in Oakland approved a contentious new policy that will prohibit homeless people from setting up tents in parks or near homes, businesses, schools and some churches in the city that has ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland City Council Member Sheng Thao will become Oakland's 51st mayor, beating out City Council Member Loren Taylor by less than 700 votes in ranked choice voting. "We chose ...

An apparent human skull was found during a cleanup of a homeless encampment under Interstate Highway 980 on Oakland Thursday afternoon, officials said. The skull was discovered by Caltrans and the ...

Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city with more garbage than almost anywhere else.