Redwood City – As home prices and rents have shot up – and homelessness is at “crisis” levels in California – federal support for local housing assistance and homelessness prevention is at a 30-year low.
If you haven’t yet taken the survey to help create a new Flood Park Playground, you’re not too late. The survey will close on Monday, April 22.
Redwood City – Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced the County will receive $14.1 million to jump-start a plan to provide housing and services for people now living in small encampments scattered from South San Francisco to Menlo Park.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the County of San Mateo, Citizens for San Mateo County Gun Buyback, and partners from several law enforcement agencies, will hold an anonymous gun buyback event on Saturday, May 4, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1050 Mission Road in South San Francisco.
You want a memorable 911 call? John Garcia, a 911 dispatcher, doesn’t want to talk about shootings or car wrecks or house fires or heart attacks. “That’s how you don’t get invited back to parties,” he said.
Most people bring an appetite to a restaurant. Catalina Ibarra brings a thermometer.
Awnings out and customer windows open, the line of colorful food trucks looks like a street fair is about to break out. Taco trucks, pizza purveyors, ice cream vendors, momo movers, Sinaloan and Michoacano cuisine connoisseurs, sushi slingers, falafel fanatics and satay suppliers line up, bumper to bumper. All these, however, are gathered for serious – it’s not an overstatement to call it deadly serious – business.
Redwood City – Residents have until Tuesday, April 23, to comment on the County’s updated draft Housing Element prior to the Board of Supervisors voting on its adoption.
Redwood City – Cramped and prone to flooding, the fire station serving a swath of rural southern San Mateo County has long been eyed for replacement. Now the vision of a new station is coming into focus.
Beginning Monday, April 8, Flood County Park will be closed as demolition begins prior to construction of the first phase of the Realize Flood Park project.
Half Moon Bay – San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller started his day ensuring residents battered by record rains and wind were getting the help they needed. He would end the day at an evening news conference comforting a community wracked by the worst mass shooting in the county’s history.
Redwood City – The County’s Human Services Agency today highlighted key accomplishments that demonstrate how the agency delivers services to vulnerable San Mateo County residents. These range from providing 66,997 clients with safety-net services to assisting with 20 adoptions.