Over the last few years—and especially during the Covid-19 pandemic—Santa Clara County's Coyote Creek watershed has become an inflection point for how the South Bay must address issues surrounding its homelessness crisis and the environmental impact of creekside encampments.

Dozens of homeless residents lived in Fair Oaks Park until a construction project forced them out, despite the pandemic.

Sweeps that clear homeless camps like The Jungle do nothing but displace homeless people, putting their health and lives at risk.

Their goal of the lawsuit: financial compensation and “reforms of the way that San Jose police are trained and directed to police protests.”

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.