Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/anaheim-homeless-shelter/)
Roughly 1,300 people are sleeping in homeless shelters throughout Orange County, with all big shelters located in north and central Orange County in cities like Santa Ana and Anaheim, according to unofficial numbers provided to Voice of OC.
Anaheim officials cleared out homeless encampments at Maxwell Park Friday morning and sent roughly 30 people to the newly opened 200-bed emergency homeless shelter near Angel Stadium four days before Christmas, as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.
Anaheim could have a temporary homeless shelter next to the existing County homeless shelter by the 91 freeway, in the eastern part of the city.
At least 575 new homeless shelter beds will be built in north Orange County under a series of court-enforceable settlement agreements reached in recent days between attorneys for homeless people and the cities of Anaheim, Orange and Tustin.
At the hearing, Santa Ana officials said they were able to design and construct the new 200-bed shelter in less than a month and that it will be opening soon at a location they haven’t yet disclosed publicly.
Orange County’s first year-round homeless shelter and comprehensive services center opens today in Anaheim with beds for 100 men and women.
Chris Vance, who owns a store called Piano Empire, near the proposed shelter in Anaheim and Michael Chew, a resident who leads BetterSolutions4Anaheim argue OC supervisors need to consider better alternatives than ramming a homeless shelter into their community.
The chairman of the Orange County Human Relations Commission calls for the county to come together and finally build a year-round, multi-service homeless shelter.
