Homelessness Demystified: Buffet of Educational Experiences
February 1, 2019
<a href="http://endhomelessness.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Alliance to End Homelessness (website)</a>
<a href="http://www.orgcode.com/learn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learn (from OrgCode Consulting, Inc.)</a>
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
Housing First
Org Code is a leader in the housing first approach and housing-focused shelter systems. Download their white papers and learn more. Recommended by Friendship Shelter, Laguna Beach.
January 2018
Irvine For Everyone
1-page position statement of I4E. The mission of Irvine for Everyone is to form a group of Irvine residents supporting the creation of a full spectrum of housing in Irvine.
April 15, 2018
<a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB448" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AB-448 Joint Powers Authority: Orange County Housing Trust (2017-2018)</a>
A housing trust fund will be created for OC if CA passes AB 448 (Daly) 2018.
Below is excerpt introduced in response to the OC Homelessness crisis. Thanks to the tireless work of activists and advocates such as Orange County Poverty Alleviation Coalition and its founder attorney Mohammed Aly.
Introduced by Assembly Member Members Daly and Quirk-Silva
(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Moorlach, and Nguyen):
An act to amend Section 54930 of add Section 6539.5 to the Government Code, relating to local government. joint powers.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 448, as amended, Daly. Local governments: parcel taxes: notice.
Joint powers authorities: Orange County Housing Trust.
Existing law authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed.
This bill would authorize the creation of the Orange County Housing Trust, a joint powers authority, for the purposes of funding housing specifically assisting the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the County of Orange, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Orange.
Amended in Senate May 31, 2018
<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/39333/archive/files/616f2a835ba2ab1dde87bfdcca8eed5e.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1528168453&Signature=pr1ZYDGBrCBERxaufCrE6rFw6Sk%3D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Orange County Catholic Worker v. Orange County, Case 8:18-cv- 000155, Filed 01/29/18</a>
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
Lawsuit filed by the Elder Law and Disability Rights Center in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division. 40 pages.
January 29, 2018
Orange County -- United States
<a href="https://youtu.be/RZUlkU5oQ1M" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Conversation on Poverty (video)</a>
A conversation between Mohammed Ally, attorney and founder of Orange County Poverty Alleviation Coalition and Irvine resident and researcher Dr. Coleman. Provides a good overview of the OC Homelessness crisis at this point in time, March - May 2018, introduces Irvine for Everyone, which Anita founded to advocate for homeless housing in Irvine. (http://tinyurl.com/irvineforeveryone)
Orange County Poverty Alleviation Coalition
2018
mp3
Video
Homelessness in the OC - UCI/United Way/ Jamboree Housing (Graphic)
Permanent Supportive Housing
Infographic
UCI / United Way / Jamboree Housing
2017
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Orange County - California - United States
<a href="http://rethinkhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/HOMELESS-PAPER-11-15-13.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Survey of Best Practices: Communities Making A Difference</a>
Most People Aren’t Affected by Homelessness. Until You Are. Until you come home from a war and just can’t tackle the day-to-day responsibilities needed to provide shelter. Until an elder, without money or family, takes to the street. Until the homeless congregate near your business and discourage customers. Until a global economic recession leaves 13 million U.S. wage earners without jobs and 4 million families without homes. Until a friend of a friend or a family member, for whatever reasons, cannot find a safe place to sleep for the night. These are the stories of 10 American communities which faced the homeless challenge and found answers. The communities are as different as are the solutions. But there were some common themes.
We interviewed representatives from each of these communities and fully understand this is a summary of just some of the best community— building ideas in the country. But we believe in the power of asking successful folks who have struggled with how to end homelessness what they did and how they did it; it’s that simple.
This report is written under the guidance and at the request of
the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness. The authors are the three founding partners of triSect LLC, a strategy firm focused on civic innovation. We have donated our time to explore what communities across the United States are doing to end homelessness.
28 pages.
TriSect, LLC
2013 (November)
PDF
English
Report
http://rethinkhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/HOMELESS-PAPER-11-15-13.pdf
United States
<a href="https://www.211oc.org/images/PIT-Final-Report-2017-072417.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Orange County Continuum of Care 2017 Homeless Count and Survey Report Point In Time</a>
On a single night in January 2017, 4,792 people experienced homelessness in Orange County. Homeless people in Orange County are diverse: they are young and old, men and women, chronic and newly homeless, alone or in families. The
2017 count shows that homeless people comprise 0.15 % of the total population of Orange County. This report was Commissioned by 2-1-1 Orange County and Prepared by Focus Strategies.
Tracy Bennett, Director of Analytics and Evaluation, Focus Strategies
Genevieve Williamson, Chief Analyst, Focus Strategies
Samantha Spangler, Analytics Consultant, Focus Strategies
Courtney Jimenez, Analytics Intern, Focus Strategies
<a href="https://www.211oc.org/reports/point-in-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2-1-1 Orange County</a>
July 2017
PDF
English
Report
Survey
Orange County - California - United States
<a href="http://bos.ocgov.com/ceo/care/HOMELESS%20ASSESSMENT%20DCC%20REPORT_10.18.2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An Assessment of Homeless Services in Orange County</a>
Susan Price (OC’s Continuum of Care Director aka The Homelessness Czar) assessment of homelessness services in Orange County and the need to do more. 43 pages. Includes glossary, program descriptions such as what does Continuum of Care mean? What is the Co-ordinated Entry system which is using the VI-SPDAT tool? Barriers, key findings, nature and number of homelessness in the OC, homelessness resources in the OC, laws and legislation, etc. are all described with graphics and text.
Susan Price, Director of Care Coordination, County Executive Office
<a href="http://www.ocgov.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Board of Supervisors, County of Orange</a>
[2016]
PDF
English
Report
Orange County - California
<a href="http://www.ocgov.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=74312" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Building the System of Care</a>
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
A set of three distinct presentations describe how the OC Continuum of Care is being built. The first, Assessment of Homeless Services of the County in 2016 and the progress made since then as well as future plans. The second is, Mental Health Services Integration: Responding to Homelessness which describes funding, legislation, locations and plans for permanent supportive housing; and the third is the County Budget Overview.
Susan Price
Director of Care Coordination
County Executive Office
Richard Sanchez
Director, Health Care Agency
Frank Kim
County Executive Officer
County of Orange
April 17, 2018
Orange County
<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/es_20180315_housing-as-a-hub_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Housing as a Hub for Health, Community, and Upward Mobility</a>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">82 page report with 4 Key Recommendations. <br /><br />Excerpts from the report: <br /><br />Housing is increasingly understood to be an</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">important determinant of success in life, affecting</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">health, access to education, and the opportunity</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">for upward mobility. The condition and location of</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">a family’s home can affect such things as</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">respiratory health and "toxic stress" among</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">children, which can affect individuals throughout</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">their lives. Indeed, the availability or otherwise of</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">good social services, positive social networks,</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">and job opportunities can determine whether a</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">family achieves the American Dream.</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;"><br />Recognition of the importance of housing as a</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">“hub” for well-being has caused analysts,</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">policymakers, and community activists to explore</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">the potential for housing-based initiatives to foster</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">good health and economic mobility.<br /><br />There is a growing recognition that, for people
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">and neighborhoods to be healthy and successful,</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">different sectors must work together and that</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">investments in one sector can bring dividends in</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">others. In health care, for instance, the increasing</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">focus on “social determinants of health” stems</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">from the understanding that the trajectory of a</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">person’s health status is heavily influenced by such factors as housing, social conditions, and poverty.<br /><br /><div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">Successful collaboration across sectors requires</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">the existence of supportive policies and practices.</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">In most cases, if not all, it also requires an organization or anchor institution— often referred to as a “hub”—to serve as the focal point and facilitator of inter-sector collaboration and to bring</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">together a range of services, connecting them</div>
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">with the community’s population. Such hubs can be a familiar local institution—such as a church
<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif;">school, or hospital, housing authority, or community organization—or even a larger institution such as a university. There may be several hubs in a neighborhood, with different functions and perhaps partnering with each other. Along with providing services, some hubs contribute significantly to economic stability and help build the social capital of the community</div>
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Stuart Butler
Marcello Cabello
March 2018
Report
<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/es_20180315_housing-as-a-hub_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/es_20180315_housing-as-a-hub_final.pdf</a>
<a href="https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=522065105106083103096000125106075096057025068011086037123100094023122118112127003028119028004057029100116101030073069117119004111035004047048068081066123028106099112059047066099102091122001022104102020089029106083122121069085031120107002120119101004115&EXT=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Homeless Bill of Rights (Revolution)</a>
This Article examines an emerging movement so far unexplored by legal scholarship: the proposal and, in some states, the enactment of a Homeless Bill of Rights. This Article presents these new laws as a lens to re-examine storied debates over positive and social welfare rights. Homeless bills of rights also present a compelling opportunity to re-examine rights-based theories in the context of social movement scholarship. Specifically, could these laws be understood as part of a new “rights revolution”? What conditions might influence the impact of these new laws on the individual
rights of the homeless or the housed? On American
rights culture
and consciousness?
The Article surveys current efforts to advance home
less bills of
rights across nine states and the U.S. territory of
Puerto Rico and
evaluates these case studies from a social movement
perspective.
Ultimately, the Article predicts that these new law
s are more likely to have an incremental social and normative impact than an immediate legal impact. Even so, homeless bills of rights are a critical, if slight, step to advance the rights of one of the most vulnerable segments of contemporary society. Perhaps as significantly, these new laws present an opportunity for housed Americans to confront our collective, deeply-rooted biases against the homeless.
Sara Rankin
<a href="https://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NVL-Update-2016_Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">California’s New Vagrancy Laws: The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State</a>
Homelessness
Homeless persons
Appendix has a list of the anti-vagrancy and other laws/ordinances against homeless people for some OC Cities. The Policy Advocacy Clinic prepared this 2016 update for the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). WRAP is a non-profit organization that was created to expose and eliminate the root causes of civil and human rights abuses of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. WRAP seeks to develop socially just solutions to all the barriers that prevent the ending of homelessness. ... This report updates the 2015 study on the enactment and enforcement of anti-homeless laws in California with new ordinance data from cities and updated arrest data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. We find that California cities are enacting and enforcing anti-homeless laws in record numbers. In contrast with historical post-recession trends, arrests of people who are homeless continue to rise in spite of an improving economy. Further, cities appear to be arresting people increasingly based on their homeless status as opposed to any concrete unlawful behavior.
Policy Advocacy Clinic, Berkeley School of Law, University of California Berkely
2016
<strong>Recent Stories of Criminalization of Homeless Persons in the OC include:</strong> <br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> Criminalization of homelessness has been going on for a while in the OC - see for example, this 2012 article by Amber Stephens in the Daily Titan, Cal State Fullerton student newspaper - <a href="https://dailytitan.com/2012/04/whats-left-criminalizing-societys-homeless/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://dailytitan.com/2012/04/whats-left-criminalizing-societys-homeless/</a> - but the stories listed below are only 2018 onwards. Generally, homeless people are criminalized by anti-vagrancy and anti-camping municipal ordinances, but recently cities in the OC have also added laws that make it unlawful to give food to homeless people. To learn more about how people are criminalized, you can read Sarma and Brand (2018) <a href="https://theappeal.org/the-criminalization-of-homelessness-an-explainer-aa074d25688d/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://theappeal.org/the-criminalization-of-homelessness-an-explainer-aa074d25688d/</a> and watch Prof. Jacob Avery's Vicious Circle video (15 mins long, 2019) to understand how homelessness and homeless people are criminalized - <a href="https://youtu.be/nqqcyjKeiz8?t=759" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://youtu.be/nqqcyjKeiz8?t=759</a><br /><br />Jan. 25, 2018. Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil. Anti-homeless laws crop up in Santa Ana in Line with a Statewide Trend, California Health Report. Available online: <a href="http://www.calhealthreport.org/2018/01/25/anti-homeless-laws-crop-santa-ana-line-statewide-trend/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.calhealthreport.org/2018/01/25/anti-homeless-laws-crop-santa-ana-line-statewide-trend/</a><br />Last accessed: May 13, 2019. <br /><br />April 3, 2018. Spencer Custodio. Moving started for Santa Ana's Civic Center Homeless, Voice of OC. Available online: <a href="https://voiceofoc.org/2018/04/moving-started-for-santa-ana-civic-centers-homeless/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://voiceofoc.org/2018/04/moving-started-for-santa-ana-civic-centers-homeless/</a><br />Last accessed: May 13, 2019.<br /><br />Sept. 5, 2018. Norberto Santa Ana, Jr. OC Lack of Progress on Homelessness is Tragic. Could it Soon be Illegal? Available online: <br /><a href="https://voiceofoc.org/2018/09/santana-oc-lack-of-progress-on-homelessness-is-tragic-could-it-soon-be-illegal/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://voiceofoc.org/2018/09/santana-oc-lack-of-progress-on-homelessness-is-tragic-could-it-soon-be-illegal/</a><br />Last accessed: May 13, 2019.
Research Report
<a href="https://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NVL-Update-2016_Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NVL-Update-2016_Final.pdf</a>
California -- United States of America