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North OC Commits to 700 New Homeless Shelter Beds; South County Identifies Zero

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter two months ago called on south county cities to identify and develop additional shelter beds, and gave them until Wednesday to identify locations.

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Federal Judge Sets June 13 Deadline for OC Cities to ID New Shelter Sites

The judge, David O. Carter, pointed to Santa Ana and Anaheim residents and businesses who, he said, are grappling with hundreds of homeless people who formerly lived at the Santa Ana riverbed but now are in their cities due to a shelter shortage.

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Supervisors Defend Their Turf and Criticize Spitzer’s Homeless Warnings

Spitzer was “stirring up a bunch of lies and nonsense” with his comments last month to public meetings of the Laguna Niguel and Costa Mesa city councils, Supervisor Shawn Nelson said. Spitzer said his colleagues weren’t telling the whole story.

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OC Supervisors Leave it to Cities and Judge to Find New Homeless Shelter Sites

“We don’t have sufficient capacity,” said the supervisors’ chairman, Andrew Do. The issue is scheduled to be discussed Tuesday at a federal court hearing with U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, county officials, and city officials from across Orange County.

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Santa Ana Alleges Class-Based Discrimination by Cities that Reject Homeless Shelters

“What we saw with…the hysteria from Irvine, is this: It’s simply a class-based argument that if ‘I pay enough for where I live, I shouldn’t have to deal with my homeless problem. I should shift it to some other city,’ ” said county Supervisor Andrew Do.

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