A startling trend has hit Santa Clara County over the past two years - more people have fallen into homelessness  for the first time and can’t find a way out. Santa Clara County’s  2025 point-in-time count  found 4,650 people have been homeless for a year or longer, with a disabling condition that makes maintaining work or housing difficult, known as chronic homelessness. That’s a 21% increase from 2023, when there were 3,833 chronically homeless residents county-wide. The county  surveyed...

A Contra Costa County woman brings the gift of music to foster and at-risk children every week, providing benefits ranging from...

The Market Street nonprofit Urban Angels, long a provider of donated clothing and meals to impoverished, shifted its focus late last year...