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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously endorsed a regional homeless plan that emphasizes the need for interim and permanent housing and preventive measures – issues that need to be worked on simultaneously – but a plan Supervisor Mitch Mashburn said lacks “meat o
The sight of tent cities and people living in cars crammed with possessions can be a thing of the past within a few years â thatâs the message being preached by All Home. But the five-year price tag for this vision of virtually eliminating homelessness in Napa County could be $87 million. The Bay Area nonprofit wants to reduce the number of people homeless and on the verge of becoming homeless in the region by 75%. And if this sounds like a mere dream, the group says thatâs part of the problem. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa ...
MASSENA â Step inside a building near Joseph Grayâs East Hatfield Street home and itâs a journey back in time. The 24-by-50-foot building could best be described as a museum of artifacts from World Wars I and II. Sitting on the right side near the entrance are a helmet, belt and gas mask. âThatâs where it all started,â Mr. Gray said. The start was when he was about 10 years old and growing up in Helena and found what he said others would consider âjunk,â but were in reality the helmet, belt and gas mask. And then the collection began to grow and now fil...
In three years, the goal is to bring that number down to 10,000 individuals. "Anybody who's lived in the Bay Area for any length of time knows that is a very audacious goal," said Ken Kirkey, chief partnership officer at All Home. "But we believe it is achievable in part because the plan has an integrated approach with a simultaneous provision of things that in the past we have pitted against each other." The strategy has lots of moving parts but focuses on two main areas: creating more housing and preventing more people from falling into homelessness. The Regional Action Plan, commonly r...