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Thousand Oaks' first emergency homeless shelter won approval Monday night from the city's planning commission. The panel voted 5-0 to approve a special-use permit for up to 50 tiny homes of ...
California’s homelessness ‘solution’ includes $80 million for 1,200 tiny homes that might not even come with a bathroom Sunny Nagpaul June 11, 2024 at 4:24 PM
When Los Angeles officials were looking to set up a new homeless shelter where residents could have their own space, they decided speed was the priority. For that reason, they declined to build ...
Nor does it lay out a program for providing the tens of thousands of new shelter beds and permanent housing that would be needed to accommodate the state's estimated 181,000 homeless people, 70% ...
With a population of about 110,000 people, about 9.7% of the total population of the Contra Costa County, Richmond is a 55.4% contributor to Contra Costa County homeless shelter beds. Homeless people from across the Bay Area are sent to Richmond shelters, making it hard for the City of Richmond to deal with the city's own homeless population.
In California housing costs are exceptionally high and the supply of affordable housing is low. California ranks 49th among U.S. states in housing units per capita. [19] As of 2021 California had only 24 available homes that were considered affordable for every 100 lowest-income renter households. This creates a deficit of about one million ...
In a survey conducted by the Los Angeles Times, a high percentage of homeless people said that they would accept housing offers, but fewer than 20% would accept a shelter offer in the same large room as others. They cited privacy, safety, cleanliness, and conflicts with staff as key justifications for rejecting this kind of shelter offer. [3]
Advocates for the homeless have said ticketing and arresting people for sleeping outdoors criminalizes homelessness, and that removing camps without enough alternative shelter or housing would ...