Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced this week that she is creating a new city department to tackle homelessness. Lee said the Office of Homelessness Solutions will be responsible for the ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced this week that she is creating a new city department to tackle homelessness. Lee said the Office of Homelessness Solutions will be responsible for the ...

Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about sprawling homeless camps that have taken root across the city. Now the ...

Mayor Barbara Lee has a new initiative to combat homelessness in Oakland. She introduced a five-point plan, focused on prevention and outreach, as well as creating a new city office, the "Office of ...

Re: “Homeless issue puts Lee on hot seat” (Page A1, July 9). Barbara Lee is wrong: Oakland is no different than San Francisco and San Jose. Lee’s approach to the homelessness problem is to believe ...