It is also true that most services funded by the County are mandated. […] But the laws that mandate these services do not mandate how much the County has to spend on them.
Tag: Housing is a Human Right Orange County
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Fielder: Letter of Serious Concern about the 2025-26 proposed OC Budget
[T]he county spends only $0.52 per OC resident of its own $1.2+Billion (NCC) discretionary money on housing, compared to over $113 per OC resident for the Sheriff’s Department and jails.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Fielder: Supervisor Foley, We Need To Talk
In one of the richest counties in California, we should be able to build permanent supportive housing at a rate faster than that at which unhoused people are dying. Orange County can and must do better, and it starts with the Board of Supervisors.
