Seven Years of Collected Articles on Homless Housing by California’s Department of Housing and Community Development

In 2019, I began posting the weekly compilation of links to California’s local newspaper articles on homeless housing, published by the staff of the California Department of Housing and Community Development in a Google Blog (Homeless Housing News). Two years later, Google staff froze the use of the blog, deciding that information being posted belonged only to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

Last week, Google re-examined their decision, and gave me permission to resume its use. In the meantime, HCD has continued its weekly notices, which I stored in a folder on a personal drive. I plan on posting the links to articles they identified to update the blog. Creating for researchers and activists the 250 posts from some of the smartest housing and community development staff in the nation, drawing from California’s last five years of local newspaper articles, will be quite a challenge. I hope to have it completed by April of 2026. HEAPA has found it a valuable source of timely homeless housing journalism all these years, and wants to publish and preserve it for our better understanding of how we are meeting the challenges of keeping up with the needs of the unhoused.