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.
Tag: Orange County Homeless
Posted inPolitics & Elections
San Clemente Councilman Resigns To Move Out of State
After repeatedly clashing with homeless activists over hiring a security contractor to police the beach, Councilman Gene James says he’s moving out of town.
Posted inTop Stories
OC Homelessness Policy Lands Back In Court, Santa Ana Stops Opening of County’s Walk-in Shelter
Santa Ana’s years-long public campaign against becoming OC’s homeless “dumping ground” has advocates for homeless people worrying about what that means for people in the streets.
Posted inCountywide
Is Forced Mental Health Treatment, Not Housing, the Way to Solve Homelessness in Places like Orange County?
State officials are touting CARE Court as a solution to homelessness while critics call it a pipeline to conservatorship.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Santa Ana’s Carnegie Homeless Shelter “Hangs in the Balance” As Work Halts While City Sues Developers in Federal Court
City officials say the upcoming shelter’s developers are trying to prevent the city from buying the property at a later date, believing the property to now be worth more than initially agreed to.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
A New Approach to the Homeless Crisis Could be Coming to Orange County
State officials rolled out a new policy proposal that would offer people mental health and drug addiction programs instead of mandatory hospitalizations or jail to combat homelessness.
Posted inEmergencies & Disasters
Orange County Judge OKs Laguna Hills Motel for Homeless People as Virus Continues to Spread [April 20 Coronavirus Update]
The County of Orange will finally get homeless people into a hotel in South County after an OC Superior Court judge looks unconvinced by Laguna Hills efforts to stop the county from housing people there during the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has killed 33 people as of Monday.
Posted inCountywide, Economy, Emergencies & Disasters, Government, Housing & Homelessness, Investigative, Top Stories
Orange County COVID-19: Daily Update on Deaths, Hospitalizations & Response
As of Monday, 14 people have died from the novel coronavirus in Orange County and 130 are hospitalized as the number of confirmed cases reached 882 out of roughly 10,500 people tested.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Government, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
County Gears Up Tents, Trailers and Hotels to Help Homeless During Virus Pandemic
County officials are rolling out a mixture of tents, trailers and hotel/motel rooms to help shelter homeless people around Orange County during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The move is expected to thin some of the overcrowded homeless shelters.
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Options Limited For Those Stuck at County Walk-in Shelter Amidst Virus Outbreak
Orange County officials are scrambling to come up with a plan to combat the novel coronavirus for its main walk-in homeless shelter, where 450 people are living in tight quarters, a converted Santa Ana bus terminal that’s struggling to keep people separated from each other.
