Fresno Homeless Union

12/14/2025

If you live in Fresno please contact the mayor and council to help save lives this winter! sample message:

December 14, 2026

Mayor and Council

Sadly, two elderly unhoused community members died in their tent from carbon monoxide poisoning on December 12 while attempting to stay warm. These deaths could have been avoided if the city had opened the warming centers.

The city’s policy to only open warming centers at 34 degrees or less is cruel, inhumane, and will cause immense suffering and more deaths from accidents and hypothermia.

I urge you to open the three warming centers and a fourth center in north Fresno at this time for the duration of winter. The unhoused human beings of Fresno, especially the elderly and disabled, who are the majority using the warming centers, are at risk of suffering exposure and hypothermia. Many of them have no tents, sleeping bags or even blankets, some have no warm jackets. The most common causes of hypothermia are exposure to cold-weather conditions or cold water. But, prolonged exposure to any environment colder than your body can lead to hypothermia if you aren't dressed appropriately or can't control your body temperature.

Older adults are more likely to have a cold injury, especially hypothermia, because, their normal body temperature may decrease with age.They can't regulate their body temperature as well. They do not produce as much heat energy. They also have less body fat. Their blood vessels do not narrow (constrict) and conserve body heat as easily. They do not shiver as much. Shivering warms the body. Their mental awareness of changes in temperatures may change. They have medical conditions that increase their risk for hypothermia. There are many medical and health conditions that contribute to cold injury and hypothermia.

Again, please open the four warming centers for the season to protect and to save lives.

"I was homeless and you gave me no bed, I was shivering and you gave me no clothes,'
Matthew 25:43

Bob McCloskey
Fresno Community Alliance

12/03/2025

Disappearing the Poor of Fresno
Source: fresnoalliance.com
https://share.newsbreak.com/g637469r

SB 634, introduced by State Senator Sasha Pérez (D–Alhambra), was recently signed into law. As introduced in the Senate, SB 634 would have prohibited the c

10/28/2025

The Fresno Center's FREE Monthly Food Distribution is this upcoming Monday, October 27, 2025, from 3pm-5pm.

EECU's Mobile Branch Unit will also be on site!

The Fresno Center's parking lot
4879 E. Cesar Chavez Blvd., Fresno, CA 93727

09/19/2025

The Failures of Mayor Dyer and the Fresno City Council
Source: fresnoalliance.com
https://share.newsbreak.com/f2tw4vea

Two homeless shelters, the Journey Home and the Golden State Triage Center, are closing in Fresno by the end of 2025 due to a lack of ongoing state and fed

03/12/2025

Bob McCloskey
"Is there any humanity left in Fresno’s leaders? It’s a fair question when the mayor and the City Council refuse to open warming centers even when temperatures drop to 35 degrees."

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01/14/2025

12/02/2024

"The Fresno business community and City leadership must realize that the much lauded anti-camping ordinance will kill their fellow human beings. Upon arrest and otherwise, the FPD is regularly throwing away tents, sleeping bags, blankets and other necessary survival gear—leaving people to die from exposure."

Since the implementation of the City of Fresno’s harsh and cruel anti-camping ordinance on Sept. 23, there have been 150 arrests of unhoused individuals in Fresno. Most arrests occurred in early to mid-October. The City then turned to issuing citations. The number of citations are unknown at this ...

11/22/2024

Volunteering for Project Share the Warmth. Distributed 20 tents, 4 sleeping bags, 10 tarps, warm clothes, hats, hygiene kits, snacks and water yesterday. Thanks to all who donated!!

10/03/2024

"We believe the City Council and the mayor and their decision-making process to criminalize the unhoused folks of Fresno has led to these kinds of violent attacks,” adds McCloskey. “It’s led to basic dehumanization, and in some cases, hatred of those who are unfortunate enough to be unhoused.”

In the early morning of Aug. 26, while he was sound asleep in front of Cuca’s Mexican Restaurant on Olive Avenue in the Tower District, an unhoused 47-year-old Latino, Fred “Freddy” F. De La Rosa, was viciously attacked and kicked to the head suddenly by a passerby holding a hot dog in each ha...

09/04/2024

Stop the criminalization of the unhoused/ Say No to the Anti homeless law

Huge Loss at the Supreme Court On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, a case challenging a long-standing Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision called Martin v. Boise, Idaho. The Martin decision established that those experiencing homelessness cannot be fined....

08/04/2024

URGENT: The Fresno County Board of Supervisors are presenting their similar cruel anti-camping ordinance on Tuesday, August 6, 9:30 a.m. at 2281 Tulare St, 3rd Floor Fresno, CA 93721. Please be there and speak up.

“Every unhoused individual out here right now is walking on death row. You have now signed every unhoused individual experiencing homelessness in Fresno city their death certificate.” —Advocate Dez Martinez “Anti-Living” Ordinances  On July 26, Fresno County Supervisor Steve Brandau intro...