WATSONVILLE — On an overcast Monday morning with a slight mist in the air, people could be seen walking along the Pajaro River levee pathway between Watsonville and Pajaro with trash bags of their ...

Clearing an encampment is one of the most complicated and fraught tasks any California city can take on when responding to homelessness. How they handle that challenge varies widely. CalMatters asked ...

"Doesn’t it strike you as odd that most people experiencing homelessness in Santa Cruz County are concentrated in just a few small areas — primarily within the city of Santa Cruz?" writes Kevin Norton ...

Santa Cruz shoulders an outsized share of the county’s shelter beds, safe-parking sites and day services, despite making up less than a quarter of the population, writes local activist.