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Alameda Post - A photo of a CARE Team vehicle with the words "EMS Week" and "EMS Program of the Year"

Council Approves Continuing AFS Services for Award-Winning CARE Team

May 9, 2025

Alameda Post - a City of Alameda Housing System Map including a complex web of housing barriers and solutions and services

Council Accepts Report on Efforts to Combat Rising Homelessness

November 22, 2024

Alameda Post - Alameda Point Collaborative Executive Director, Doug Biggs. Photo © Maurice Ramirez.

Alameda Point Collaborative’s Doug Biggs is Retiring

November 14, 2024

Alameda Post - Andrea Zeppa, homeless services regional coordinator for Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, and Deidra Perry (R), program financial manager for Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, team up during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley, Jan. 25, 2024. The PIT count, which included a voluntary survey, gathers data on the county’s homeless population. Photo Loren Elliott for CalMatters.

California Spends Billions on Homelessness Yet the Crisis Keeps Getting Worse

February 29, 2024

Alameda Post - a render of the new Wellness Campus, a two story building with garden area

Wellness Campus Construction Begins

November 1, 2023

Alameda Post - Alameda Mayor Ashcraft stands outdoors with a microphone and speaks.

Alameda is Working to End Homelessness

July 24, 2023

Alameda Post - A man starts a fire while his wife sleeps inside their makeshift tent along a barbed wire fence near Highway 99 in southwest Fresno on Feb. 11, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters/CatchLight Local

UCSF Study Unpacks Root Causes of CA Homelessness Crisis

June 22, 2023

Alameda Post - Mayor Ashcraft cuts a ribbon at Dignity Village, surrounded by smiling and clapping people

Dignity Village Transitional Housing Opens

May 4, 2023

Alameda Post - Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft presents the State of the City address aboard the USS Hornet on March 30, 2023.

Mayor Ashcraft Optimistic About the State of the City

April 6, 2023

Alameda Post - panelists for the Community Forum on Homelessness

Forum Explores Homelessness and Church Warming Shelter

March 13, 2023

Alameda Post - Cindy Houts of Alameda Food Bank

How the Alameda Food Bank Helps Prevent Homelessness

February 20, 2023

Alameda Post - Alameda Warming Center at 1700 Buena Vista Ave.

City Council Increases Funding for Successful Warming Shelter

February 10, 2023