Santa Cruz County released an initial overview Friday of results of the Feb. 28 point-in-time homeless count, and there was good and bad news. Housing For Health Director Robert Ratner will go more in-depth with the county’s board of supervisors on Tuesday.
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Shelter closures show new homeless response plan in midstream
Santa Cruz County-run programs at the Oceana Inn and the National Guard Armory will close their doors by the end of this month, amounting to a net loss of 252 of the county’s 638 total shelter beds. Says county Housing for Health director Robert Ratner, “We have to stop taking our money and investing it in one-time-only things; we have to corral the limited money we have invested in a strategic way.”
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San Francisco voters recall progressive D.A. Boudin. Crime and homelessness at issue
Progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is recalled after a bitter and pricey campaign amid rising fears over crime and homelessness.
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Are 9% of UC Santa Cruz students homeless?
It’s a shocking number that has come up in debates ahead of June’s election. Lookout looks into where the number comes from and what it does and doesn’t mean.
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District 3 forum fireworks: Sparks fly as Kalantari-Johnson, Cummings spar on homelessness, districting
As the June 7 election nears, the three candidates vying for the county supervisor seat that covers most of Santa Cruz and the North Coast — Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson, Justin Cummings and Ami Chen Mills — engaged in a spirited, pointed back-and-forth Thursday night. Meanwhile, four candidates — Liz Lawler, Gail Pellerin, Rob Rennie and Joe Thompson — for the newly redrawn State Assembly District 28 talked through a wide range of state-meets-local topics, and on where to spend California’s $68 billion surplus.
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NORTH COUNTY SUPES PART 2: How would they take on homelessness, affordability and climate change?
With longtime politico Ryan Coonerty bowing out from his duties overseeing most of Santa Cruz and areas north such as Bonny Doon and Davenport, three new, diverse faces are vying for the chance to replace them. Lookout asked them to respond to a wide-ranging set of questions so you can compare them as we go to the polls on June 7. In Part 2, they take on homelessness, affordability and climate change.
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Everyone has an idea for solving homelessness. What if we listened to the unhoused?
This conversation between activist Theo Henderson and scholar Ananya Roy foregrounds the endeavors and collaborations that seek to challenge such erasure.
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Newsom’s ‘CARE Court’ homelessness plan faces new questions before first hearing
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to create court-ordered treatment for mental illness has divided some Democrats and local governments.
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In governor’s race, challengers attack Newsom’s record on homelessness
Two of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most vocal challengers in this year’s California governor’s race are hoping to tap into voter anger over homelessness, crime and other quality-of-life issues.
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California senator proposes checks for low-income, homeless high school seniors
A state senator wants to send no-strings-attached checks to homeless high school seniors in California, where basic income programs are beginning to “feel a lot more like a movement.”
