When Alameda County adopted a $2.5 billion plan to address homelessness, they hoped the plan would begin to stem the tide of a crisis that had taken on crisis proportions since the start of the pandemic. Now, nearly two years into the program, there are still more people becoming homeless than are being housed. On Tuesday, the Alameda County Board of supervisors the Alameda County Board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a countywide state of emergency on homelessness and give themselves one more tool.