Garden Grove to Pick Outcomes of COVID-19 on Homelessness
A homeless encampment manufactured from tents and tarps traces the Santa Ana riverbed arrive Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 25, 2018. (Robyn Beck/AFP by potential of Getty Photography)
The Garden Grove city council is anticipated to approve a proclamation sooner or later of its Jan. 26 city council meeting that will stare to resolve the brief- and prolonged-time frame results of COVID-19 on the city’s homeless population.
“As uncertainty of the financial system, unemployment, and housing instability compounded with the final public well being emergency due to the the COVID pandemic persists, it is a long way excessive to negate awareness of latest efforts and stare public enter about homelessness in Garden Grove to support e book prolonged-time frame priorities of put up-COVID restoration,” the council agenda says.
If popular, the motion will end result in a sturdy neighborhood engagement direction of to spend the city’s novel homeless resources, fragment facts about combating homelessness, and spend outreach programs to pork up individuals and households impacted by the virus.
Phase of the system will embody an upcoming series of digital conferences and webinars from varied neighborhood companions.
Here is now not the first time Garden Grove has worked to greater realize its homeless population. In 2019, council held a recognize session to talk about a top level view of homeless actions and resources deployed to take care of challenges of homelessness in step with Orange County’s 2019 Point in Time count, a file on recordsdata of homeless individuals.
For the reason that recognize session, the city has expanded a quantity of various items for its homeless programs. These embody prioritizing public security and avenue outreach with a special resources crew by rising from two officers to four, funding a program to get recordsdata for an interactive dashboard, increasing an emergency solutions grant toward homeless prevention, rising the city’s sizzling meal programs to seniors, individuals, and households impacted by COVID-19, and additional.
As of 2019, Garden Grove had a homeless population of 225, in step with basically the latest Point in Time count.
As a part of the draft whole strategic idea to take care of homelessness that shall be addressed Jan. 26, the agenda lists five needs for the idea: cancel neighborhood engagement efforts around homelessness, boost homelessness prevention efforts, pork up recordsdata tracking and homeless outreach, explore alternate choices for emergency housing, and increased win entry to for affordable housing.