Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/orange-county-united-way/)
The proposal would create a regional agency of city, county, and public representatives to speed up the financing of 2,700 proposed homes with support services for homeless people.
If built, the 2,700 new units would be enough to house more than half of the 4,792 homeless people counted in Orange County during the latest official count in January 2017.
The Board of Supervisors approved a change that breaks the local United Way’s monopoly on charitable giving through paycheck deductions.
Donations employees had intended for the Sheriff’s Advisory Council instead went to United Way’s general donation pool.