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City and county leaders look toward the future of solving homelessness in Orange County.

Furniture Industry News: The 2024 winner will be selected from among the nine finalists through online voting of the ICFA membership.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that the Point in Time Count underscores that, despite denial, South County needs to step up.

Faith-based organizations will host small overnight shelters.

The required point in time count will continue through Thursday, creating a picture for policy makers of the number and needs of homeless people.

The county will grant Anaheim $137,500 to work with faith-based organizations and churches to have up to 50 emergency shelter beds throughout the city,

The biennial count is required by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to gather information on the region's homeless residents.

The county has provided cold weather emergency shelters since 2007, however, this year there have been no projects proposed.

The Commission to End Homelessness has begun looking into where the county's cold weather emergency shelter could go this winter season.

The new Orange County Homeless Survey, recently administered by the Office of Care Coordination and City Net, sheds unexpected light on the needs and lives of people living without shelter.