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What I learned reporting on Sacramento’s effort to get dying people off the streets
posted 11/27/2018
When I walked into Room 104 at a Motel 6 along a busy Sacramento road, I entered a deeper understanding of a complicated and growing crisis.
For series on health threats facing homeless people, an emphasis on telling deeply human stories
posted 03/29/2018
The homeless count is at a record high in Sacramento, with more children on the streets as families on the margins are priced out of housing. Shelters also say they're taking in senior citizens without a home for the first time.
With patients in need of more than medicine, LA’s biggest safety net hospital overhauls primary care
posted 03/21/2018
Juan was homeless and struggling with alcoholism before a team of health care providers at LAC+USC were finally able to put him on a new path. It's part of a new approach to treating the whole patient at the county's largest hospital.

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What I learned reporting on Sacramento’s effort to get dying people off the streets
When I walked into Room 104 at a Motel 6 along a busy Sacramento road, I entered a deeper... more »
posted 11/27/18
For series on health threats facing homeless people, an emphasis on telling deeply human stories
The homeless count is at a record high in Sacramento, with more children on the streets as... more »
posted 03/29/18
With patients in need of more than medicine, LA’s biggest safety net hospital overhauls primary care
Juan was homeless and struggling with alcoholism before a team of health care providers at LAC... more »
posted 03/21/18

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Project: Hope, Humanity & Housing: Life on Sacramento streets
Hope, Humanity & Housing is a series that follows people living on the streets of Sacramento County. Their stories aim to put a face on a complex condition with many stigmas: homelessness.
Project: Hope, Humanity & Housing: Sacramento Mercy Pedalers deliver simple solutions
Reporter Vicki Gonzalez spent the past year on this series as a recipient of the 2018 California Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.  
Project: Hope, Humanity & Housing: Sacramento program aims to get people off streets, into homes
Reporter Vicki Gonzalez spent the past year on this series as a recipient of the 2018 California Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.