Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Housing

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  Mar 19, 2025

Vallejo halts encampment sweeps while crafting new homelessness strategy

The Vallejo City Council placed a freeze on all encampment sweeps for two weeks....

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  Feb 26, 2025

Homeless man crushed to death during Vallejo encampment clean-up was star athlete with troubled past

James Oakley was a high school star but later struggled with drug addiction and served time in prison for manslaughter....

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  Feb 10, 2025

Federal judge blocks Vallejo from destroying woman’s tent shelter

Evelyn Alfred, known to friends as Brown Sugar, has for months been fighting the city’s efforts to remove her from a vacant lot alongside Mare Island Way....

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  Feb 07, 2025

Homeless residents decry Vallejo encampment sweeps during storms

Several unhoused people said their vehicles were towed and belongings removed while the Bay Area experienced several major rainstorms....

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  Jan 01, 2025

Year in review: Fresh faces will lead Vallejo in 2025

The new leadership still faces difficult issues that the city has grappled with for years....

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  Dec 19, 2024

Benicia seeks to rebuild senior center with affordable housing

The Benicia City Council is seeking a developer to build affordable housing on two city-owned parcels....

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  Dec 11, 2024

Audit finds grant challenges, limited experience led to $6M bailout of Vallejo supportive housing project

The project's total budget ballooned from $15.6 million to $26.6 million....

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  Dec 03, 2024

Judge orders city of Vallejo not to evict disabled homeless woman

For the past year and a half, Evelyn Davis Alfred has lived on a vacant lot alongside Mare Island Way near Tennessee Street....

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  Nov 19, 2024

State, local agencies remove long running Vallejo homeless encampment

Caltrans said that the encampment is one of the largest that the agency has removed in the Bay Area....

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  Oct 25, 2024

Vallejo clears Mare Island encampment after judge denies restraining order

City officials and police cleared the encampment on Wednedsay....

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  Sep 10, 2024

Vallejo mayoral candidates share divergent plans at community forum

Four candidates are running for mayor of Vallejo in November: former Councilmember Pippin Dew, small business owner Dwight Monroe Jr., Participatory Budgeting Committee member Ravi Shankar, and Surveillance Advisory Board Chair Andrea Sorce....

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  Sep 04, 2024

Vallejo Homeless Union members file federal lawsuit to stop encampment eviction

They allege that Vallejo and Caltrans improperly confiscate possessions and vehicles used for shelter....

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