Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 255, which would have allowed state funding for abstinence-based recovery housing as part of California's homelessness response system, citing the need to ...

Thanks to a new state grant, Berkeley is launching an ambitious "post-arrest diversion pathway" to serve unhoused individuals with mental health or substance use needs.The $8 million "no-match grant," ...

The bill by a San Francisco Democrat would have allowed some state-funded homeless housing projects to require sobriety.

A Philly police captain sent a letter to St. Francis Inn, saying that nuisance behavior had occurred outside and similar behavior could result in its closure.

A nonprofit group in Miami is helping reduce the strain on emergency rooms by providing homeless people with health care where they live.

Statistics show about 60% of inmates have a substance abuse disorder, yet drugs are commonly smuggled inside U.S. jail facilities, contributing to overdose deaths in custody. And when jails have ...

When Tonya Ridesatthedoor arrived in Missoula about four months ago to start fresh after serving time in prison, she was homeless and needed “anything and everything.” ...