Homeless advocates in Sunnyvale say encampment sweeps are inhumane, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Nov. 22 tragedy points to the same dangers driving the 122 percent jump in homeless deaths Santa Clara County has seen so far in 2020.

The lives of unhoused people matter. Providing them the basic resources to reinforce that doesn’t seem like much to ask. Does it?

Survivors of the Grace Baptist Church attack say that despite what happened, they remain committed to serving the homeless.

Designed by tattoo artist Benny Arana O’Hara, the mural painted on West Virginia Street depicts two fists coming together against a red line.

So, what happens to the trailers now? A city official said they could be kept in storage, returned to the state or repurposed.

More than a week has passed since SJPD responded to protests with alarming force. How many people were hurt in the fray is still unclear.

Though they’re among the most vulnerable, unhoused people struggle to get tested for the coronavirus and find shelter for quarantine.

The county is trying to find what land it already owns on which to build below-market-rate housing for the region’s poorest residents. 

San Jose cleared homeless people out of their illegal camps this year at more than 11 times the rate it had in 2013, according to a new report.

San Jose, a city with a million residents and 4,000 people living on the streets, no longer has a 24-hour emergency homeless.

An activist and housing rights advocate urges voters to elect Don Rocha as Santa Clara County supervisor.

Silicon Valley needs to protect aging residents from evictions, which can compromise the health and wellbeing of senior citizens.

Advocates for the elderly say the housing crisis imperils the health of seniors, who are harder hit than most tenants when faced with eviction.

A renter who has been fighting eviction and accused her landlord of subjecting her to dangerous and squalid living conditions lost her case.

San Jose police on Sunday fatally shot a man reportedly wielding an ax. The incident marks the city’s sixth officer-involved shooting of 2017.