Almost 1,500 people spent the night of Jan. 22 without shelter in Humboldt County, according to results of the Point in Time count released by the county Department of Health and Human Services. The biennial count held Jan. 23 found that 1,473 people had experienced unsheltered homelessness the night before, more than double the number […]
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Partnership Health Awards Humboldt County $1.05 Million for Affordable Housing
Partnership HealthPlan of California, the region’s MediCal administrator, announced this morning it has awarded the county $1.05 million in grant funding for supportive housing units. The nonprofit also granted the Redwood Community Action Agency $1.26 million. According to the press release, Partnership awarded a total of $25 million in grants this week for “housing-related projects […]
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No Homeless People in Southern Humboldt?
The Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition has sent out a press release with information about the most recent Point in Time Count, which took place in late February. The press release charts a general decrease in homeless people tallied across the county, dipping from 1,180 to 618 in the last two years, a drop of […]
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Homeless Count Postponed
This year’s biennial Point-in-Time count will be postponed one month in order to recruit more volunteers to assist the homeless count. The count, scheduled to take place at the end of January, will be pushed back to the early morning hours of Feb. 28. Every year the Department of Housing and Urban Development requires communities […]