<a href="http://www.ocgrandjury.org/pdfs/2017_2018_GJreport/2018-05-31_Homeles_Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Where There's Will There's A Way: Housing Orange County's Chronically Homeless</a>
Permanent Supportive Housing
Does the County of Orange have the political will to overcome the roadblocks to housing the county’s chronically homeless population? That's the question the 2017-2018 Orange County Grand Jury examined.
Despite research evidence for the success of the 'Housing First" model the Grand Jury found significant roadblocks for ending homelessness such as resident resistance (NIMBY), lack of collaboration between the County and Cities, and the difficulty of funding and siting.
The Grand Jury concluded that "If political will is defined as a sufficient number of key decision-makers who are intensely committed to supporting Permanent Supportive Housing as a solution for the chronically homeless, then the answer is “not yet.”
To improve collaboration and overcome roadblocks, the Grand Jury recommends the County and cities establish a regional body empowered to develop and implement a comprehensive business plan for siting and funding Permanent Supportive Housing development." 38 page report with an extensive list of references and resources that show that housing first works, homeless housing do not decrease property values or increase crimes (two concerns of residents who frequently resist siting homeless housing near neighborhoods). The Grand Jury also reports that Orange County which is the 10th most expensive place to live in the nation, where incomes have not kept pace with fair market rents does not have enough homeless housing. Includes an extensive list of peer reviewed research, websites, videos and other resources.
<a href="http://www.ocgrandjury.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Orange County Grand Jury</a>
<a href="http://www.ocgrandjury.org/reports" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Orange County Grand Jury</a>
May 31, 2018
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Orange County - California
<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
<a href="http://www.templelawreview.org/lawreview/assets/uploads/2017/05/Stahl-89-Temp.-L.-Rev.-487.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Challenge of Inclusion</a>
<div style="font-size:15.8px;font-family:serif;">The creation of diverse and inclusive communities has long been one of American housing policy’s most important commitments. The United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed this commitment in an important decision that interpreted the federal Fair Housing Act to require that municipalities avoid housing policies with a discriminatory impact on protected classes. Following the Court’s decision, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) enacted groundbreaking new regulations requiring communities to take affirmative steps to provide housing for all protected groups. In practice, however, realizing the goal of inclusion will prove exceedingly difficult. The Trump administration will almost certainly kill the new HUD regulation and is unlikely to make affordable housing a priority. In truth, it is doubtful that any administration of either party could succeed in diversifying communities because efforts to do so often stir intense political opposition from homeowners. As a result, scholarly and popular media accounts typically vilify these homeowners as selfish xenophobes. <br /><br />This Article presents a more complex picture. Though inclusion represents our society’s highest aspiration, exclusion is both necessary and desirable in any conception of community. I examine research in several disciplines, including economics, sociology, and political theory, and discover in each discipline a strong argument that exclusion is indispensable to the idea of community. Nevertheless, this Article contends that the arguments in favor of exclusion, like the arguments against it, are overstated. It is possible to create communities that are diverse and inclusive, but doing so will, paradoxically, require some concessions to exclusion. The intractable question, often elided by the false choice between a mosaic of segregated “urban villages” and a “melting pot” that dissolves all differences, is how to balance the aspiration for inclusion against the practical need for exclusion. This Article concludes by suggesting compromises between inclusion and exclusion that may help make inclusive communities a reality.</div>
Kenneth Stahl
Spring 2017
<a href="http://www.templelawreview.org/lawreview/assets/uploads/2017/05/Stahl-89-Temp.-L.-Rev.-487.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.templelawreview.org/lawreview/assets/uploads/2017/05/Stahl-89-Temp.-L.-Rev.-487.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/Housing-Transit-Crossroads.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Moving San Mateo County Forward: Housing and Transit at a Crossroads</a>
This is a report by by TransForm, a nonprofit supporting transit and smart growth, and the Housing Leadership Council; they are housing and transit advocates. The report was funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation and several other regional community foundations. <br /><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full">
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<p><strong>Author Abstract:</strong> As Silicon Valley growth has soared, cities have failed to build the housing needed, leading to record traffic delays. From 2010 to 2015, San Mateo County added 72,800 new jobs, but just 3,844 homes: for each new home, that’s 19 jobs. The report also finds that half of San Mateo County’s workers make less than $50,000 per year, and most local homes are priced far out of reach for most local workers.</p>
<p>The report includes brief stories from local workers, who are unable to find housing nearby, are commuting long distances, or are planning to leave the county entirely. “A few years ago, after my husband and I split up, my children and I spent nearly a month in a homeless shelter,” said Myrna Trujillo, a Daly City resident. “Permanent affordable housing saved my life.”</p>
<p>While everyone feels the effects of the shortage, low-income renters and buyers are hit hardest. “Even in Silicon Valley, most jobs are not high-paying tech jobs,” says HLC's executive director, Evelyn Stivers. “Many people work in retail and restaurants or care for seniors and children. The people with the fewest resources and the least flexible jobs are being forced into the worst commutes.”</p>
<p>According to the report, almost half of all new jobs in San Mateo County in the years to come will pay less than $65,000 a year—and many jobs will pay far less than that. Without policy interventions to address housing and transportation in an integrated way, both problems are bound to get worse. The report offers solutions that transit agencies, cities, and the County can all take to move us forward.</p>
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<div class="field-item even">As Silicon Valley's economic growth has soared, cities have failed to build the housing needed, leading to record traffic delays. This report, published jointly by the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County and TransForm, shows how the housing crisis is inextricably linked to our traffic and transportation woes, with recommendations for how to address both.</div>
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<br /><strong>Notes from <a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/06/21/study-lack-of-housing-means-more-traffic-not-less/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">East Bay Times</a>:</strong><br />The report finds that rejection of new housing developments in San Mateo County has led to more, not less, congestion as workers move farther away to find affordable housing. One new home was built in San Mateo County for every 19 jobs created between 2010 and 2015.<br /><br />Many cities and their residents have fought new development because they are “really concerned about traffic,” said Evelyn Stivers, executive director of the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo; “not building housing [though] really causes traffic problems.”<br /><br />The report shows the difficulties expanding transit and housing in a county that hosts the headquarters of Facebook, Oracle, Genentech and other tech giants, and encompasses some of the wealthiest communities in the United States. The median sales price for a home in San Mateo County in April was $1.6 million. The area’s median annual income is $118,400 — less than one-third of the annual salary needed to purchase a home with a 10 percent down payment. The report comes as county leaders consider a proposal to add a half-cent to the sales tax to raise transportation funds. Many solutions are proposed for easing both housing affordability as well as traffic congestion. This is a research report of 24 pages with detailed statistics and figures.
Elizabeth Stampe
The Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo works with communities and their leaders to produce and preserve quality affordable homes. <a href="http://hlcsmc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hlcsmc.org</a>
TransForm promotes walkable communities with excellent transportation choices to connect people of all incomes to opportunity, keep California affordable, and help solve our climate crisis. <a href="http://www.transformca.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">transformca.org</a>
June 2018
Study Report
<a href="http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/Housing-Transit-Crossroads.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/Housing-Transit-Crossroads.pdf</a>
San Mateo County - California
<a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/11/05/orange-county-rich-good/ideas/connecting-california/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Is Orange County Too Rich For its Own Good?</a>
Essay explores the many ways in which the OC is failing: lack of housing, the nature of the jobs here, as well as the lack of mass transit and other infrastructure for its booming economy. ... Orange County hasn’t developed the robust and innovative tech sector of other wealthy American places. Instead, what distinguishes Orange County is the high percentage of its workers who are in high-paying professional services posts, from finance to accounting. But those higher-paying job categories are stagnating, while there is robust growth among much lower-paying job categories—in tourism, leisure, construction, and, to some extent, healthcare. The real growth in jobs in Orange County in the next decade, according to state projections, will be low-paying ones in food preparation and service, personal care aides, and retail sales ...
Orange County, despite being a job center and a crossroads between counties in Southern California, has been irresponsibly cheap when it comes to building its infrastructure ...
Joe Matthews
<a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Zocalo Public Square</a>
November 5, 2018
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<a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/11/05/orange-county-rich-good/ideas/connecting-california/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/11/05/orange-county-rich-good/ideas/connecting-california/</a>
California - Orange County
<a href="https://citylimits.org/2015/02/25/after-the-shouting-do-shelters-and-supportive-housing-harm-neighborhoods/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">After the Shouting, Do Shelters and Supportive Housing Harm Neighborhoods?</a>
This article which cites research studies and data tries to answer the following questions in the wake of disputes against shelters for homeless in NY: What effects do residential facilities for the homeless really have on their surroundings? Are the anti-shelter groups in Far Rockaway, Glendale, Elmhurst and on the Upper West Side right? Does housing for the homeless put an undue strain on local services and pose a threat to schoolchildren? Does the city give communities too little input or concentrate such facilities unfairly in certain neighborhoods?
What does the research say?
Researchers say that two of the most common concerns about residences for the homeless—shelters and supportive housing—are that they will reduce property values and increase crime. Accordingly, these claims have received the most attention in scholarship.
... fears about housing for the homeless can be overblown—a finding that largely reinforces broader research.
What’s to blame for this gap between expectations and outcomes, between perhaps understandable assumptions and more nuanced truths? “They just don’t want the idea of a shelter in their neighborhood,” said Johnson, the resident of the Westchester Square facility, of local opponents. Sometimes, it seems, ideas can be more menacing than reality.
Jesse Coburn
<a href="https://citylimits.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CityLimits.org</a>
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<a href="https://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8842" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">City of Irvine Housing Strategy and Implementation Plan</a>
[This is a great report to understand Irvine's visionary housing development, and principles and implementations such as inclusionary zoning and the Irvine Community Land Trust].
From the Executive Summary: The cost of housing is very high in Orange County, and particularly so in desirable areas like the City of Irvine. The median price of a single-family home in Irvine is now $800,000, higher than the Orange County average ($707,000) and much higher than the overall average for California ($538,770).
Since its incorporation in 1971, the City of Irvine has been a leader in Orange County and in Southern California in the creation of a full spectrum of housing opportunities, including affordable housing. The City has provided inclusionary incentives locally and has also provided funding for various affordable housing projects over the years. As a result, the City now has 4,400 units of affordable housing, of which 3,155 were created through its inclusionary program and another 1,245 through HUD-assisted projects. Unfortunately, many of these affordable housing units are now at risk of losing their affordability due to expiring controls, restrictions and/or subsidies.
The recent annexation of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station property, and the City’s subsequent creation of a Redevelopment Agency with El Toro as its project area, has created a new and significant opportunity for future affordable housing. The build out of the residential portion of this property, together with the continuing build out of the rest of the City, will provide the City with the ability to create a significant number of new affordable housing units.
To capitalize on this opportunity, the City of Irvine hired CivicStone, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in affordable housing, to develop a housing strategy for the City. This report represents the culmination of this work.
Civic Stone
City of Irvine
Adopted March 14, 2006
Amended June 24, 2014
Amended November 10, 2015
<a href="https://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8842" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8842</a>
<a href="https://medium.com/charis-research/some-facts-about-homelessness-in-the-oc-and-affordable-homes-in-irvine-babd10b4b019" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Some Facts About Homelessness in the OC and Affordable Housing in Irvine</a>
In March 2018 the Orange County Board of Supervisors, California, voted to use land that it owns in the City of Irvine near the Great Park, to erect temporary housing shelters for people vacated from the Santa Ana Riverbed (Santa Ana Skid River). The Irvine City Council held an emergency meeting on March 20, 2018. They listened to public comments and subsequently decided to go into litigation to stop the County from following its plan. Many stereotypes, mis-statements, and myths were casually thrown out by vociferous city residents on the social media NextDoor. There was “outrage” and protesting. They didn’t want the “homeless addicts housed near our homes,” people who “choose to be homeless,” “have refused services and continue to live a life of crime and drugs!” The original post on NextDoor was edited and blogged in an attempt to inspire Irvine residents to become informed, kind neighbors.
The 4-min blog post explains the economic reasons for homelessness and contains the definitive links to understand homeless and housing in the OC, including Irvine. The ground-breaking United Way/UCI/Jamboree Housing study, The Cost of Homelessness, and other important resources that explain the extreme housing shortages are all linked.
Anita Coleman
March 22, 2018
Orange County - California
<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
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The Article surveys current efforts to advance home
less bills of
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perspective.
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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://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=800100124064064088091081006065096081036046034042033020101002111072120064106093107095110003010016007048098011021091025023116013118055068037012103094124114082096114077091053022067066083073104119064090068066094076081097071104017123086004069065117078029005&EXT=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Faith is the First Step: Faith-based Solutions to Homelessness</a>
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
A report from the Homeless Rights Advocacy Project, School of Law, Seattle University. 64 pages, Extensively footnoted with 332 References. Bibliography, p. 46 - 59.
Kate Means
Sara Rankin
<a href="https://law.seattleu.edu/centers-and-institutes/korematsu-center/initiatives/homeless-rights-advocacy-project" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Homeless Rights Advocacy Project at Seattle U School of Law website</a>
2018 (?)
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<a href="https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=800100124064064088091081006065096081036046034042033020101002111072120064106093107095110003010016007048098011021091025023116013118055068037012103094124114082096114077091053022067066083073104119064090068066094076081097071104017123086004069065117078029005&EXT=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=800100124064064088091081006065096081036046034042033020101002111072120064106093107095110003010016007048098011021091025023116013118055068037012103094124114082096114077091053022067066083073104119064090068066094076081097071104017123086004069065117078029005&EXT=pdf</a>
United States
<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/39333/archive/files/2966b70d760ec4d29850b058f30a040e.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1528350653&Signature=XlOkL5ayH9eurdWyrBifhXSEoTY%3D"></a>Answers to Questions: About the Current Homelessness Crisis in the OC
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
Permanent Supportive Housing
Housing First
In late March and April of 2018, discussions erupted among many Southern Orange County residents about homelessness in the OC. In an effort to help the community know more about the history, the current situation, and potential solutions of homelessness, on May 31st, 2018, the Orange County Chinese Americans Parents Book Club (OCCAPBC) and Future Chinese Leaders of America (FCLA) organized a forum at 10 Corporate Park, Suite 120, Irvine. Professors Dr. David Snow, Dr. Jacob Avery, and Dr. Yang Su, three experts in researching homelessness, social inequality and poverty from Department of Sociology of UCI were invited to present their research results on the true cause of homelessness and the better initiative to combat it. People planning to attend the forum sent 8 questions to Jing Sun. Irvine For Everyone (I4E), a grassroots initiative that was launched on April 11, 2018 to change the dominant NIMBY narrative and help residents become informed, supportive neighbors, publicized the forum, and prepared this document. I thank Mr. Jing Sun for organizing the forum and allowing me to share about I4E. It is my honor to invite OCCAPBC and FCLA to join I4E and thank those members who’ve already signed-on. Resources plus opportunities for learning and service are included. Anita Coleman, Ph.D., Irvine, CA. June 1st, 2018
Anita Coleman
Garrett Dunbar
June 1, 2018
<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/39333/archive/files/60a886d8f6c75690f66d41e59de8c77c.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1528605633&Signature=VVZcBdLQ5GN4dhR8zld1mKbqBgg%3D">https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/39333/archive/files/60a886d8f6c75690f66d41e59de8c77c.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1528605633&Signature=VVZcBdLQ5GN4dhR8zld1mKbqBgg%3D</a>
<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://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/39333/archive/files/93b253cc8d0090d7f32fbcd953677f20.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1529929139&Signature=YrfEJv7Lm7JOvwvQyF9ga%2BIpCTw%3D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Changing Household and Housing Characteristics of Irvine, 2000-2016</a>
A comprehensive project submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Urban and Regional Planning, UCLA. 60 page report with figures, tables, references, links, and footnotes. Advised by Melissa Fox, Irvine City Council Member and Professor Michael Lens, UCLA.
Provides an overview of changes to Irvine's households and housing characteristics during the 2000 to 2016 time period and use other neighboring cities, Orange County, and California as context. Proposes a series of recommendations for the City of Irvine to follow to address its shortage of affordable housing while maintaining a high quality of life for its residents.
Key findings include that Irvine grew its population and housing stock at about three times the rate that Orange County did at 81.3% and 79% and bucked County and State trends as a majority of the new housing stock was multi-family. Despite the healthy amount of housing construction though, in real terms, gross rents grew by 25.6% and home values increased by 81.3%. This had the effect of lowering homeownership rates in the city from 60% in 2000 to 48.7% in 2016 and increasing the share of households that are mortgage and rent burdened across almost all income categories.
When looking for reasons for the skyrocketing costs of housing in Irvine, ... household incomes weren’t driving costs higher as they increased at lower levels than inflation and lower than several of its neighboring cities, Orange County, and California at large during the 2000 to 2016 time period. Neither were vacancy rates as they actually increased and ended higher than the countywide vacancy rate in 2016. ... a potential answer [emerges] when looking at the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA). While Irvine and most other cities are on track to meet their moderate and high-income housing goals, no city in Orange County, including Irvine, is currently on track to meet their extremely/ very low and low income (affordable housing) goals and other cities were given far lower allocations than Irvine across the board.
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuabaum93" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joshua Baum</a>
5 June, 2018
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<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/39333/archive/files/ee963057bef21f67a8ab5f71b4a482ed.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1550007319&Signature=qzNG%2F%2FXVdeKrS%2FRdgcprkFYeqOc%3D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Solutions for Homelessness: What Works and What's Ahead</a>
Permanent Supportive Housing
Presentation by<strong> Helen Cameron,</strong> Business Development Manager at Jamboree Housing Corporation (Irvine), one of three panelists at <em><a href="https://i4e.omeka.net/bee" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Homelessness Demystified: Creating Awareness, Understanding, and Solutions</a>,</em> 2 February 2019, Canvas, Irvine. <br /><br /><strong>About the Presentation:</strong> 18 slides. 20 minutes. Helen shares highlights from the groundbreaking United Way OC / Jamboree Housing Corporation / University of California Irvine (2017) study, and the housing, services, and solutions - PSH, permanent supportive housing - Jamboree is using successfully. <br /><br /><strong>About Helen Cameron:</strong> For the past 20 years, Helen has participated in the development of permanent supportive housing. She participated in the development of the first community in Orange County in 2004 to house formerly homeless individuals with a mental health diagnosis – Jackson Aisle. With Jamboree, she has participated in three new communities, Diamond Apartment Homes in Anaheim, Doria in Irvine and Rockwood in Anaheim for formerly homeless individuals with a mental health diagnosis. As part of the Business Development team, she is exploring new communities in Orange County to contribute to the 2700 units of planned permanent supportive housing. She was part of the working group which developed the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. As Co-chair of the Community Services and Support Committee for the Mental Health Services Act Steering Committee she is a passionate advocate for housing resources for our most vulnerable residents.<br />Visit their website for more information about Jamboree: <a href="https://www.jamboreehousing.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.jamboreehousing.com/</a><br /><br />To participate in the Homelessness Demystified: Buffet of Educational Experiences, Feb. 4 - May 4, which includes two Housing Experiences by Jamboree, visit: <a href="http://irvineforeveryone.org/bee" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://irvineforeveryone.org/bee.</a>
<a href="https://www.jamboreehousing.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jamboree</a> (Presented by Helen Cameron, Business Development)
2 February, 2019
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California - Orange County
Mentally ill homeless persons
Homelessness - Costs
<a href="https://theconversation.com/why-turning-homelessness-into-a-crime-is-cruel-and-costly-97290" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Why turning homelessness into a crime is cruel and costly</a>
Two law professors who study how laws can make homelessness better or worse, encourage cities, suburbs and towns to avoid punishing people who live in public and have nowhere else to go. One big reason: These “anti-vagrancy laws” are counterproductive because they make it harder to escape homelessness.
<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/joseph-w-mead-344925" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joseph Mead</a>
<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/sara-rankin-487313" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sarah Rankin</a>
June 2018