There will be a special meeting of the county’s Commission to End Homelessness this afternoon at 1 p.m. The agenda shows the 19-member commission will act on the amendments to their bylaws, two litigation settlements, and the 2019 Everyone Counts final report. The commission will also discuss Be Well OC and get updates from its ad hoc chairs.
The Everyone Counts report came in on July 30. Here are just a few of its findings:
A total of 6,860 individuals were counted as experiencing unsheltered and sheltered homelessness during the Orange County 2019 Point In Time Count
3,961 or 57.74 percent of individuals were experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
2,899 or 42.26 percent of individuals were sheltered in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program.
466 unsheltered and sheltered families that consisted of 1,550 persons – 584 adults and 966 children – were counted countywide.
70 or over half (63.63 percent) of the 110 unsheltered families were living in a vehicle (car, van, truck or recreational vehicle in disrepair).
275 transitional age youth [aged 18-24] were counted as experiencing homelessness countywide.
Nearly half (44.7 percent) of the transitional age youth identified as Hispanic or Latino.
311 unsheltered and sheltered veterans were counted countywide. Nearly one-third (31.83 percent) were sheltered. More than two-thirds (68.17 percent) were unsheltered.
Blacks or African Americans and Multiple Races are overly represented in Orange County’s homeless population. Hispanic and Latino families experiencing homelessness are over represented in the Orange County’s homeless population.
- On the night of the 2019 Housing Inventory Chart sheltered Point in Time Count was conducted, 738 emergency shelter and transitional housing beds remained vacant.
Click here to view the agenda and all the documents related to the meeting. The meeting will take place at the Orange County Transportation Headquarters, Conference Room 07-08. The address is 550 S. Main St., Orange.
Anthony Pignataro has been a journalist since 1996. He spent a dozen years as Editor of MauiTime, the last alt weekly in Hawaii. He also wrote three trashy novels about Maui, which were published by Event Horizon Press. But he got his start at OC Weekly, and returned to the paper in 2019 as a Staff Writer.
I myself 63yo notice on any& most comments made regarding homeless are
negative -the only people who make these comments are the ones who
have never experienced it for themselves, I myself have worked for
more than 44yrs mostly in Orange County ,I do NOT do drugs/alcohol nor
do I have any type of criminal record -BUT I find myself homeless due
to Personal & Corporate Greed an selfishness brought on by High Rent
Prices ,when people pay these exuberant rent prices they do Not
realize that you are giving these property owners a Stamp seal of
approval on Jacking-up as high as they can in order for them to make a
so called Profit >ITS Called >GREED! I myself am Not Stupid to give
inn to those {I wish more people had the Courage to do this}But -MOST
PEOLPLE say >I HAVE TO HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE I have No Choice but to
give in to the idiots that create high rent prices, those who are
homeless and do these Bad behavior issues are giving me a bad image- i
myself am being punished by those who criticize homeless-ness, anyone
who is homeless is branded a >Druggie-alcoholic-mentally incapacitated
or worse a Criminal>NOT TRUE! REMEBER!! DO Not JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS
COVER, CMON PEOPLE -Wake-Up an take a stand for what is right an stop
thinking your better than me!
PS; How about doin a report / commentary {if you got the courage} on
peoples Greed an personal selfishness as they are the reason and
cause of homeless-ness by paying these exuberant high mortgage cost
/taxes and charging as much as they want -*thinking they are goin to
make a profit {todays society is all about money & material things wat
a shame!} this is happening across this country , it sickens me to
hear people are worried about there property value if even 1person
being homeless in there neighborhood-they better expect it to happen
when they are given in to Greed or they are stupid and blind-sided by
there own greed ,its only gonna get worse as we have an influx of
Illegal Migrants-immigrant’s-refugees and now influx of Caravans from
central America -so hold on to your tail and get ready for rent prices
to sky-rocket even higher and more American citizens to go homeless an
longer lines-more traffic congestion and more Babies being pumped-out
,what bothers me even more is when the police harass the homeless
telling us we have to move-on >WHERE? they are puppets of city council
or county commissioners ,where do the police think we are just gonna
magically disappear or do they wish-encourage us to commit suicide-for
most of us that’s NOT gonna happen,
Well Put and Very True Mark.
Take Good Care Of Yourself, Things will Get better!
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