The state certainly has a crisis of mental illness and substance abuse, visible on the streets of every city. But can involuntary commitment under SB 43 be part of the solution?
The largest study in decades of California's homeless crisis finds that older seniors priced out of housing are now a substantive share of those living on the streets.
The state senate is considering a bill to detain more people with mental illness, based on the notion that the U.S. doesn't compel care enough. That narrative has serious flaws.
For the 16 years James Mark Rippee lived on the streets of this Bay Area town, his sisters Catherine Rippee-Hanson and Linda Privatte unsuccessfully begged politicians, bureaucrats and medical professionals to give their schizophrenic baby brother the help he so clearly needed but didn’t want. Their advocacy made
As Biden prepares for his State of the Union speech, polls show Americans in a negative mood. But how much does that truly measure sentiment, rather than partisanship?