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There’s a serious risk of the county eventually becoming an economy of low-wage “servants” and wealthy homeowners, unless there’s a stronger focus on expanding the housing supply, according to Chapman University researchers who are advising county officials.
Longstanding efforts to establish Orange County’s first year-round homeless shelter took a major step forward Tuesday, when county supervisors started the process to buy a building in a commercial area of Anaheim.
Researchers in recent years have been able to link many chronic health conditions to high levels of stress, which is more prevalent in low-income communities.
The annual Health Care Agency survey shows a healthy county overall but wide disparities depending on age, race, ethnicity and geography.
Sandra Fox, an eligibility worker for the Orange County Social Services Agency, talks about the challenges she faces as poverty rates soar and resources wane.
The director of Orange County’s Social Services Agency talks about the old notions and new faces of poverty and what his agency is doing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Health Care Agency’s annual survey shows the number of Santa Ana residents living in crowded conditions to be 10 times the national average.
Paperwork issues mainly to blame for delay in the building of a
community park in one of the city’s most park-deprived areas.