Homeless

If you're a kid on the streets, jumping from shelter to couch to doorway each night, a square meal isn't likely a part of your regular diet.

Hundreds of homeless men and women this week began filing reimbursement claims for tents, bicycles and other items seized by Sacramento police during raids of illegal encampments since 2005.

Mark Bell has a lot to say and has poured it into hundreds of handwritten pages of poetry, memoir and fictional anecdotes.

Camp Pollock, the historic Sacramento campground where generations of Northern California boys have practiced their Scouting skills, is soon to be on the sales block, officials have confirmed.

A small but vocal band of homeless people fighting for the right for a legal campground in Sacramento has scored an international coup.

Homeless for eight years, Mark Bell was drinking heavily for much of that time, but he has switched his focus to writing.

Sometimes, people are reluctant to climb aboard Sharniece Monroe's big white bus. A plush, free ride to the Department of Motor Vehicles or human assistance or the health clinic? Job counseling and résumé writing and computer workstations, all on board and free of charge?

Wednesday was moving day for a significant portion of Sacramento's homeless.

With frigid nights gripping the area, Sacramento city officials have come up with nearly 60 additional shelter beds for homeless men and women.

For nearly three years, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has sought to create a city-sanctioned encampment for a small but vocal band of the homeless.

Mayor Kevin Johnson on Tuesday pledged his commitment for creating a sanctioned "safe ground" for as many as 100 homeless campers in Sacramento, calling it a final piece of the area's mosaic of programs to shelter needy people.

Wells Fargo has come to the rescue of a winter shelter program threatened by a $75,000 funding shortfall, officials said Monday.

Homeless men and women once again are spending chilly nights inside Sacramento area churches and other houses of worship this winter, but the project is threatened by a funding shortfall, officials said Tuesday.

Dozens of Sacramento homeless people said Friday they're tired of being herded back and forth and would rather risk arrest than comply with a recent police order to take down their tent city and move on.

Volunteers for the American River Parkway Foundation on Saturday cleaned up trash left at abandoned homeless encampments along the parkway.

The city of Sacramento tonight could help close the funding gap for providing winter shelter for homeless people.

Homeless people looking for work will be able to get rides to job interviews and training programs, thanks to a new program sponsored by a group of public and private agencies.

Kirk Roberson said he was so thankful to get a 308-square-foot studio apartment at a recently opened supportive housing complex that he searched his caseworker's back for wings.

Sacramento County has come up with $150,000 to provide housing for 75 to 100 homeless people this winter.

For as long as anyone can remember, Sacramento County has funded a seasonal shelter program to house the homeless during cold and rainy winter nights.

A kitchen stove where she cooks dinner for her family. A bedroom where her daughter keeps a platoon of stuffed bears. A stoop where she can sit and watch children play in the courtyard.

After three days under the tall trees at Stand Down 2011 – a homeless veterans' boot camp in its 20th year here – many were better-equipped to confront the demons that have haunted them since Vietnam, the first Gulf War and other conflicts.

After two years of lawsuits, meetings and negotiations, Sacramento's homeless appear no closer to finding a legal place to sleep outdoors.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday vetoed a bill that would have afforded additional legal rights to homeless people who suffer violence or intimidation.

Two nonprofit groups that serve homeless youths have agreed to merge into a single organization.

Who's in the spotlight: Homeless children who need school supplies.

In yet another stark measure of the region's difficult economy, Sacramento County schools have seen a marked increase in the number of students whose families do not have a stable home.

Krista Szymborski walked past a rusty chain-link fence and into a clearing under the I Street Bridge, cradling a black oblong box to her chest.

Cottage Housing, a nonprofit organization that helps move homeless people into jobs and permanent housing, has a new president and chief executive officer.

Before leaving the tent she and her Chihuahua call home Thursday morning, Stacy Selmants grabbed a pair of black shoes. She was on her way to the graduation ceremony for the eight-week job readiness program for homeless women she had completed at Women's Empowerment on North C Street.

A Sacramento jury decided Thursday that a homeless woman did not murder a man she shot three years ago at a downtown bus stop.

Attorneys have begun sorting through a federal jury's complicated verdict in a lawsuit that pitted homeless campers against Sacramento cops.