Marisa Kendall
CalMatters ReporterMarisa Kendall reports on California's homelessness crisis for CalMatters. She previously covered homelessness for the Bay Area News Group, courts for The Recorder in San Francisco and crime for The News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida. She's a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court struggles to serve Californians in acute mental health crises. Two bills are moving forward to change that. -
Homelessness prevention shows promising results in California, as advocates push to spread it statewide and nationally. -
Faced with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in additional cuts to housing and homelessness programs. -
A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year. -
The largest survey of homeless Californians in decades aims to dispel myths about what drives that state’s most pressing criss. It found that addiction and mental health conditions rarely cause homelessness.
