OC Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento is using $200,000 in discretionary dollars and teaming up with a nonprofit to help shelter homeless families at motels across his district during the winter.
Tag: Dennis Kriz
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Coalition of North OC Churches Creates Low-Interest Loans to Curb Homelessness
A coalition of Catholic churches is offering a 2% loan program to low-income families in an effort to get them off the streets or prevent them from falling into homelessness.
Posted inNorberto Santana Jr.
Santana: As Deaths Mount, OC Must Confront Hard Conversations on Homelessness
A recent grand jury report showcases need for real time public accounting on people falling through gaps
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Kriz: Thirty-Two People Died “Without Fixed Abode” in OC in October, Last Year There Were 24
Thirty two people died “without fixed abode” in OC in October, last year there were 24, keeping the mortality rate among the county’s homeless roughly double that of last year. Yet, the recent opening of three 24/7 shelters in Northern O.C. offers some reason for hope movement albeit glacial is becoming possible.
