Coming out of pandemic, Santa Cruz County taking stock of homeless strategy
Sitting in a cramped corner of the Garfield Park Branch Library, the county's homeless services director gestured toward results of this year's point-in-time count.
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Sitting in a cramped corner of the Garfield Park Branch Library, the county's homeless services director gestured toward results of this year's point-in-time count.
Between February 2022 and 2023, however, homelessness declined substantially to 1,804 people, the county's lowest population recorded in more than two decades.
Long before a levee along the Pajaro River breached on March 11, causing massive flooding in the community of Pajaro in North Monterey County, plans had been on the books
Two years into a three-year plan to reduce homelessness in Santa Cruz County, more people are finding landlords to accept housing vouchers and more residents 60 and older are sleeping in vehicles outside churches, county and community leaders said Tuesday.
The Veterans Village will house homeless veterans and their families.