California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered state and municipal agencies to being the dismantling thousands of homeless encampments across his state, where an estimated 180,000 people are unhoused. Newsom’s order follows last month’s Supreme Court ruling that...
The Chicago city government is preparing to shut down and fence off one the city’s largest and most visible homeless encampments ahead of next month’s Democratic National Convention. Chicago recorded 18,836 unhoused people in 2024, a jump from 6,139 in 2023 – the city...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities have the right to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors. The ruling was rooted in a ban on outdoor sleeping in public in Grants Pass, Oregon. A San Francisco-based appeals court decision determined that a municipal...
Los Angeles County has teamed with the Weingart Center Association to repurpose a hotel in the City of Baldwin Park hotel into a multifamily development with 107 studio apartments for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. This project is being financed with...
A candidate for president talks about the housing market, a hospitality group does not want Los Angeles homeless people in the city’s hotels, and an old Iowa jail is up for sale. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our hits and misses for the week...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
