Orange County Homeless Thread

[urbancuriosity]

Some 24 hour fitness locations are now open 24 hours (e.g. Irvine/Tustin Marketplace on Jamboree).

[CA4Now]

Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, said there are not enough beds for those who need them — which means many people resort to sleeping on the streets, not only in the summer but in the colder winter months. In Orange County, some 500 people experiencing homelessness died on the streets last year, with Santa Ana and Anaheim topping the list with 100 and 98 deaths, respectively.

(photo) Mark William Krause waits for a bus to pick him up at the Fullerton Transportation Center and take him to the only cold weather emergency shelter in Orange County — a gymnasium at Independence Park in Fullerton on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Krause says he’s been unhoused for two months. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/0...-up-to-voters/

[CA4Now]

Amidst record-breaking homeless deaths and a cold weather shelter debacle that prompted a dispatch of street medics this year, an 85-bed referral-only shelter is coming to Garden Grove.

The shelter has been dubbed the Central Cities Navigation Center, and it will serve the central Orange County cities of Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Westminster, which combined counted a total homeless population of at least 588 people in the 2022 Point-in-Time survey.

At their regular Tuesday meeting, Garden Grove City Council members unanimously approved the new shelter’s operator, Volunteers of America Los Angeles, a non-profit founded in 1896 – one of Southern California’s oldest and largest.

In doing so, city council members approved a $5.2 million agreement with the nonprofit for an initial two-year term, with the option of extending for up to three more years, with funding for the agreement coming in from each of the three cities as well as the County of Orange.

“From 2017 … all the way until now, it’s amazing to see how far as a city we have come as far as prioritizing our unhoused population, prioritizing mental health and substance abuse (issues),” said City Council Member Kim Nguyen during the meeting.

https://voiceofoc.org/2023/04/garden...ral-oc-cities/

[CA4Now]

Anaheim is turning the former Tampico Motel on State College Boulevard into affordable housing for young adults, city officials said Thursday (11/2/23) at an event celebrating state and county funding.

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/0...-young-adults/

[matzoman]

There is all kinds of room for the homeless to sleep at the Laguna Beach Shelter at 200652 Laguna Canyon Road. They provide hot showers, a place to do laundry and breakfast every morning. If the indoor shelter is filled for the night most people camp in the parking lot or the surrounding hills around the shelter.