Housing minister says he has stopped estimating when homeless numbers will drop

Commentary: Homelessness just declined in the US. Trump's plans will take us backward

In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally released the long-awaited homelessness numbers for 2025, revealing a 3.3 percent decrease in overall homelessness between January 2024 and January 2025. To be clear, this...

Can Mass. hit its housing goals? New housing Sec. says yes.

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration estimates that the state will need 222,000 by 2035 to deal withe existing need and population growth. Her new housing secretary, Juana Matias, says we can meet that goal, and joins CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith to talk about chipping away at decades of sluggish housing production. Matias, who was a state representative and regional administrator at HUD, talks about what she’d like to see come from the end-of-session rush and how the state can weather federal pullbacks on fair housing an public housing.

Homelessness on the Rise; Govt Pledges to Address Troubling Issue

Homelessness on the Rise; Govt Pledges to Address Troubling Issue

Surrealing in the Years: Housing minister's war on targets comes for homeless children

Ah, sure targets only remind us how rubbish it all is anyway.

What is the California Legislature doing about homelessness this year? These are the bills to watch

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As this year’s legislative session speeds to a close, a handful of bills focused on the state’s homelessness crisis have made the cut so far. Though homelessness improved slightly last year, there are still an estimated 182,000 Californians with nowhere to call home. []