Experts say the county’s current homeless shelter network is eating up a lot of money while showing little results.
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Santa Ana Clears Homeless Encampment at Cultural Center While Offering Shelter, Bringing Months-Long Saga Near End
Santa Ana city officials moved Thursday to clear a high-profile homeless encampment at a local cultural center while offering everyone shelter.
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Homeless Deaths Are Spiking in Orange County
April was the deadliest month for Orange County’s homeless in at least five years, according to the coroner data. Most of the deaths are still under investigation.
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Fullerton Takes First Step to Open a Homeless Shelter
Fullerton gives nonprofit homeless services provider Illumination Foundation $500,000 to help start the first homeless shelter in the city.
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7,000 Homeless People in OC is a Wake Up Call, Experts Say
The nearly 7,000 people officially homeless n Orange County should be a wake up call to the County and all 34 cities to start building affordable and permanent supportive housing, in addition to shelters, according to experts in the field.
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OC Apparently Left Millions in Homeless Health & Housing Grants on the Table
Smaller counties than OC have asked for and received tens of millions more in state and federal funds for preventative health and housing programs that studies have shown save taxpayer dollars overall, help homeless people get off the streets, and save lives.
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Federal Judge Carter Calls OC’s Skyrocketing Homeless Deaths a ‘Public Health Crisis’
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, after years of rapid growth in Orange County homeless deaths, issued an emergency request this week describing a “public health crisis in the County leading to the deaths of hundreds of people experiencing homelessness.”
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
Over 60 of OC’s Sickest Homeless People to Be Housed with Health Services
The goal, officials said, is to help homeless people move off the streets, stabilize their health issues, develop positive relationships with other community members, and save public money in hospital emergency services and other costs.
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Homeless Toilet Dispute Heads to OC Supervisors Amid Sewage Concerns
County officials say homeless people should use restrooms at the Courtyard shelter, more than three miles from the Santa Ana river bank encampment. But the shelter closes its doors at 8:30 p.m.
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Homelessness and Poverty Keep Growing in Orange County, Studies Find
There’s been a 54-percent increase in homeless people living on the streets in the past four years, according to data released last week from the county’s Point in Time count.
