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The tentative agreement requires the city to ensure space for campers and fund some homeless services.
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For several years, there’s been a large homeless encampment on a hill behind the Siskiyou Behavioral Health Services building in Yreka. Locals have debated what to do about it for just as long. That ended this week as authorities cleared the camp.
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Siskiyou County is adding options, slowly, for homeless adults.
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President Donald Trump wants cities to force treatment on people with severe mental illness or addiction who are living outside. An executive order signed late last week aims to remove “vagrant” individuals from streets across the country and place them in long-term institutional settings to “restore public order.”
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Trump’s call to enforce bans on encampments echoes Newsom’s policy. But the president wants to upend two other core tenants of California’s homelessness response.
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State agency in charge of food benefit payments still currently assessing any potential changes.
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This year’s tally of homeless people showed declining numbers in Southwestern Oregon and far Northern California, but service providers aren’t convinced the problem is actually getting better.
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People in rural Josephine and Jackson Counties can now receive help applying for jobs, housing and other services without having to visit an office.
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The city previously used the building as a temporary homeless shelter but closed it in April because it didn't meet fire code.
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In Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, homeless Californians describe their experiences over the past year as camping ban enforcement has increased.
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It’s been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Grants Pass’s ban against homeless people camping in public. The ruling reverberated across the U.S., freeing cities to crack down on homeless encampments. But in Grants Pass, the city still can’t clear all its homeless camps.
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California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.
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The city is still finalizing the details, including the amount of the grant. The city council will discuss the program again at a meeting on Monday.
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Joy Community will provide 10 long-term homes for seniors.