Marisa Kendall covers California’s homelessness crisis for CalMatters. With more than six years of experience navigating this complex topic, Marisa has won multiple awards for her sensitive, comprehensive coverage. She strives to provide nuanced, in-depth reporting that both explains convoluted California policy and highlights the stories of people on the street affected by Sacramento’s decisions.
A Bay Area native, Marisa lives in West Oakland. But her reporting has taken her all over the state – and beyond. She traveled to Los Angeles to investigate whether Mayor Karen Bass’ high-profile solution to homelessness was working. She even went as far as Texas to determine why Houston’s homeless population had decreased dramatically over the past decade.
Before joining CalMatters, Marisa covered housing and homelessness for the Bay Area News Group (including The Mercury News and East Bay Times), where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland. Prior to that, she covered high-stakes court cases in Silicon Valley for The Recorder. Marisa started her career covering crime and mayhem in Southwest Florida for The News-Press. She’s a graduate of American University, and enjoys swimming, biking and reading novels when she’s not out on assignment.
Aprovechando los nuevos fondos estatales, algunos proveedores de atención médica de California están comenzando a ofrecer lo que sus pacientes sin hogar realmente necesitan: vivienda.
El fallo de la mayoría conservadora del tribunal significa que las ciudades ya no tienen prohibido castigar a las personas sin hogar por acampar si no tienen otro lugar adonde ir. Tendrá fuertes repercusiones en California, donde el gobernador demócrata Gavin Newsom y muchos líderes de la ciudad acogieron con agrado el nuevo poder para barrer los campamentos.
The ruling by the conservative court majority means cities no longer are prohibited from punishing homeless people for camping if they have nowhere else to go. It will have strong repercussions in California, where Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and many city leaders welcomed the new power to sweep encampments. Homeless people and their advocates say the decision criminalizes poor people who have no other options, for simply existing.
Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients.
El gobernador Gavin Newsom dijo que enviaría pequeñas casas a San José, Los Ángeles, Sacramento y el condado de San Diego. ¿Por qué no se ha materializado ninguna todavía?
Backers of a tough-on-crime California ballot measure put homelessness at the forefront of their campaign to roll back Prop. 47. But would the measure actually help get people housed?
Dos nuevos proyectos de ley permitirían fondos estatales para apoyar viviendas sobrias para residentes sin hogar, una desviación significativa de la actual ley de California de "vivienda primero".
