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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Durante años, el sendero del río Guadalupe, un sendero sinuoso que serpentea por el corazón del centro de San José, había sido el hogar de cientos de personas que vivían en tiendas de campaña y chozas improvisadas. En los últimos meses, muchos han desaparecido como parte...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters For years, the Guadalupe River Trail — a winding path that snakes through the heart of downtown San Jose — had been home to hundreds of people living in tents and make-shift shacks. In recent months, many have vanished as part of a $750 million-push by...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters California ha invertido miles de millones de dólares en encontrar hogares para veteranos sin hogar, pero el número de ex miembros del servicio militar que viven en la calle se ha mantenido estable durante casi una década. Hoy en día, un tercio de los veteranos sin...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters California has poured billions of dollars into finding homes for unhoused veterans, but the number of former military service members living on the street has held steady for almost a decade. Today, a third of the nation’s unhoused veterans are in California. Tori Gibson of San...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Tents, makeshift shacks and broken-down RVs crowded both sidewalks under a U.S. Highway 101 overpass in Hollywood seven months ago. More than two-dozen people lived in the squalid encampment, feet from cars flying past. Neighbors and nearby businesses fumed, saying they and their customers felt unsafe....
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Losing income is the No. 1 reason Californians end up homeless – and the vast majority of them say a subsidy of as little as $300 a month could have kept them off the streets. That’s according to a new study out of UC San Francisco...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters En todo California, las ciudades se están quedando cortas cuando se trata de proporcionar suficiente refugio para sus comunidades de personas sin hogar. Más de 69,000 residentes sin hogar viven en el condado de Los Ángeles, por ejemplo, pero ese condado tiene poco más de 21,000...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters All over California, cities are falling far short when it comes to providing enough shelter for their homeless communities. More than 69,000 homeless residents live in Los Angeles County, for instance, but that county has just over 21,000 beds in shelters and temporary housing programs. It’s...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Living on the streets of California is a deadly affair. The life expectancy of an unsheltered person is 50, according to national estimates, nearly 30 years less than that of the average Californian. As homelessness spirals out of control throughout the state, so too do deaths on the street, but...