The Richmond Tiny House Village held its grand opening this week with 12 homes for unhoused people ages 18 to 24, who can stay up to two years; the nonprofit Tiny Village Spirit led the project and Hope Solutions will operate it. Organizers said the project cost less than $1 million, with design help from University of San Francisco architecture students and funding partly from crowdfunding. CBS reported that before the village opened, more than 100 unhoused young adults in Contra Costa County had access to 13 units of emergency housing; first residents are expected in the coming weeks.
King County Executive Girmay Zahilay sent the County Council a proposed $19.5 million shelter and affordable housing package his office said would create 612 units, including $5 million for an 80-unit tiny home village in Seattle's Central District, $2.4 million to keep Mary's Place's 140-unit family shelter open, and $1.8 million for 100 units of veterans housing in Kirkland. He also announced a partnership in which the county and the Schultz Family Foundation would each commit $10 million over three years for 92 units of youth-designated shelter and transitional housing. The county said approximately 1,000 youth and young adults are experiencing homelessness in King County.
Zahilay committed in March 2026 to advancing 500 units of shelter and housing in 500 days under his Breaking the Cycle initiative; the county says its Housing Finance Program pipeline is expected to deliver 3,205 affordable homes between 2026 and 2029.
The Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved an updated policy for students in temporary living situations, the district's first such update in a decade. The policy mandates same-day enrollment, requires schools to set aside private spaces where families can confidentially request assistance, lets students without guardians self-enroll, and gives schools with 75 or more affected students a dedicated advocate position. At least 22,000 CPS students — about 6.8% — experienced homelessness during the 2024-2025 school year.
During the 2023-24 school year, 3.2% of public school students experienced homelessness in the U.S.
Westside Current · on a UCLA study of student homelessness in Los Angeles County schools
UCLA researchers found L.A. County schools saw a 30% increase in student homelessness between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years, with an estimated 61,249 K-12 students experiencing homelessness in 2023-24. A separate statewide UCLA report counted 298,254 California students experiencing homelessness in 2024-25, a 10% increase from 2018-19.
California has approved a one-time $116 million allocation to help schools identify students experiencing homelessness.
La Casa Norte broke ground August 12 on the conversion of the former North Hotel at 1622 N. California Ave. into a non-congregate shelter with 40 private rooms for youth ages 18–24, each with its own bathroom and mini kitchen. The approximately $6 million project received city approval in summer 2024, with remaining construction set to begin this month and renovation complete in mid-2027. The nonprofit said 12 young people moved into the completed first floor this spring and three have transitioned to stable housing.
Through its Non-Congregate Shelter Acquisition program, the city is working to convert approximately 300 traditional shelter beds into non-congregate settings.
The Oregonian reported that a Portland high school is piloting a host-family program for students experiencing homelessness, run by the nonprofit Second Home — the organization's first program serving youth experiencing homelessness in Portland. The program places unaccompanied high school students with volunteer host households.
Second Home, coordinated through Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, began in Beaverton and has previously placed unaccompanied students in Washington, Lincoln and Multnomah counties.