City officials and local stakeholders tour a facility along Pioneer Avenue in Woodland that stores future supportive housing units in February. The units will be part of the city’s East Beamer Way Campus project that will help address homelessness...

By ROBYN DOBSON | [email protected] PUBLISHED: March 7, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | UPDATED: March 7, 2022 at 1:31 p.m. Yolo County conducted its first sheltered and unsheltered Point in Time Count since 2019 after a surge of COVID-19 delayed the 2021 count. The Point in Time...

By DON THOMPSON and JANIE HAR | PUBLISHED: March 3, 2022 at 10:16 a.m. | UPDATED: March 3, 2022 at 11:24 a.m.   SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor proposed a plan on Thursday to force homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders into treatment. The proposal by...

By SARAH DOWLING | [email protected] | Woodland Daily Democrat February 12, 2022 at 4:28 a.m.   City officials and local stakeholders got their first glimpse of the next phase of a multi-million dollar housing project aimed at helping Woodland’s homeless population. “There is no better jurisdiction to...

By ROBYN DOBSON | [email protected] | February 2, 2022 at 2:52 p.m.   Yolo County is working to acquire and renovate properties after obtaining two rounds of funding from a Community Services Infrastructure grant to be used as a diversionary housing project and as a residential...

California voters could decide this November By MARISA KENDALL | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 31, 2022 at 8:45 a.m. | UPDATED: January 31, 2022 at 11:24 a.m.   California voters could make it legal to wager on sports games this year while also taking a big...

By GERARDO ZAVALA | [email protected] | January 6, 2022 at 4:30 a.m. The East Beamer Way campus project that started in 2020 to offer a range of housing and services for people experiencing homelessness will receive additional funds to address new costs relating to...

By SARAH DOWLING | [email protected] | Woodland Daily Democrat November 6, 2021 at 3:26 a.m.   An effort to bring dozens of permanent supportive housing units to the growing East Beamer Way campus took another step forward this week. The move came during Tuesday’s Woodland City Council...

It’s estimated that there are 29.4 Yolo County residents who are dealing with homelessness for every 10,000 residents countywide. In Woodland, that number is higher — 39.4 homeless residents for every 10,000, according to the most recent count, which was...

Phase 1 of East Beamer Way Project Opens FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Thurmond, Executive Director, Friends of the Mission 916-416-0901  |  [email protected] WOODLAND – A collaboration of nonprofits, government agencies and health care providers have worked together to complete Phase 1 of a...