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As the city has begun to take a hard look at the state of homelessness locally, the Watsonville City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday on plans to remove a private-property homeless encampment used by an estimated 20-40 people off Airport Boulevard.
With the March primary election result's technically not yet certified, authorities charged with addressing Santa Cruz County homelessness were before elected leaders Tuesday with a request to carve $1 million off Measure K's projected annual $10 million in sales taxes.
The facility will be built on county-owned land and is expected to be finished by the end of 2024. Two additional navigation centers are being planned in the county.
Santa Cruz County 2nd District Supervisor Zach Friend has been reappointed by the California State Association of Counties to serve another year-long stint as chair of its Health and Human Services Committee.
Santa Cruz county leaders unveiled their latest and largest affordable housing project of its kind in the county. The focus, offering permanent housing to some of the most vulnerable, unhoused people living in the community.