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OC officials say they’re looking into buying local motels and converting them into permanent housing for homeless people with support services, as the state offers over half a billion dollars for such projects.
Fullerton City council members have voted to extend the program for three more months amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Santa Ana City Council members late Thursday night approved a $9 million police spending increase for the next fiscal year along with the rest of the city budget in an initial vote.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the mortality rate of OC’s homeless has been consistently double of that from last year. Do we care?
The Costa Mesa City Council voted unanimously and authorized a $3.7 million contract with Cerritos-based Cal-City Construction Inc., for the project.
Homeless people are continuing to die at record-high levels in OC, with 34 deaths in April and 30 in May, compared with an average of 18 monthly deaths in the prior 12 months.
The Fullerton Armory outbreak was about a week ago, and people who tested positive were moved into the county’s motel sheltering program.
The ban, initially set to expire at the end of this month, will remain in effect through June 30, after council members voted to direct interim City Manager Greg Garcia to extend the original order — enacted in March — through his emergency powers.
April was the deadliest month for Orange County’s homeless in at least five years, according to the coroner data. Most of the deaths are still under investigation.
A simple majority of the City Council could vote for acting City Manager Greg Garcia to extend the current evictions ban past May through his emergency authority.