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The now-removed plan had emphasized expanding the affordable housing supply for homeless people as a “top priority.” The supervisors also consolidated their power over the commission, removing all current members and changing the selection rules so supervisors now will pick all of the commissioners who have voting power.
The services center in Anaheim promises to provide up to 200 homeless people at a time with a safe sleeping space and support services like mental health treatment and housing referrals.
Garden Grove’s Interim City Manager Allan Roeder sat down with Voice of OC recently to talk about his views on the county’s efforts to address homelessness, and what government leaders need to be doing to move forward on the issue.
There were positive steps in 2013, but the county was still plagued by a lack of cohesiveness among those responsible for getting people off the street.
A not-in-my-backyard argument by residents at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting did not sway Supervisor Shawn Nelson or his colleagues.
Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach is inviting newly elected Supervisor Todd Spitzer to take over for him.
They shouldn’t be cited for sleeping on lawns and sidewalks if there are no shelter beds available, protesters argue.
Santa Ana city officials are fighting a proposal to convert the empty bus terminal into a year-round homeless shelter.
The proposal to convert Santa Ana’s shuttered bus terminal into a year-round homeless shelter will be considered. Santa Ana officials are mounting an effort to stop it.
County lawyers have advised that it’s illegal to use state funds
for fully implementing the law.