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From: leroysoetoro@hrc-rejected.com

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/11/needing-shelter-for-homeless-people- orange-county-asks-the-military-to-extend-use-of-armories/

Orange County is looking to buy extended time — and temporary space — at
two National Guard armories to meet a federal judge’s wishes to shelter homeless people displaced from longtime encampments at the Santa Ana River
and Santa Ana’s Civic Center.

It appears that the military is willing to give its OK to the rare
request.

A spokesman with the California Military Department’s public affairs
office said on Tuesday, April 10, that approval is only awaiting sign-off
from the fire marshal.

“My understanding is it’s been approved,” Lt. Col. Tom Keegan, the
department’s director of public affairs, said, adding that he had heard
Monday that getting the fire marshal’s approval would not be an issue.

The winter shelter programs at both the Santa Ana and Fullerton armories
are scheduled to end April 15 when the weather warms up, as they typically
do every year at all 10 armories used as homeless shelters statewide. But county officials asked for another 90 days to continue operating the
facilities as a place for homeless people to sleep at night.

Keegan said that only once in the past four years, as Southern California homeless populations were dramatically expanding, has a locality asked for longer use of an armory: Pomona was granted an extension for the past
winter shelter program.

Pomona, entangled in its own legal issues over homelessness, had hoped to
open a year-round emergency shelter and service center by last November
but the planned opening of the shelter was pushed to sometime this year.rn

Among the 10 cities where armories are used as winter shelter for homeless people, eight are located in three Southern California counties:
Inglewood, Lancaster, Los Angeles and Pomona; Fullerton and Santa Ana; and Ventura. When the winter shelter program began in 1987, 16 armories were
used as shelters. That grew to 26 armories in the 1996-97 season, seven of
them located in Los Angeles County.

Orange County’s request is driven by concern that existing county-run and county-contracted shelters will not be able to handle a sudden influx of
people resulting from recent actions to clear the county’s two largest
homeless encampments. Fullerton officials joined the county in supporting
an extension of the winter shelter program, as did state Assemblywoman
Sharon Quirk-Silva, who contacted both the National Guard and Gov. Jerry
Brown.

Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee said he would go beyond the 90 days if
possible: “I’d like it to be year round. It’s not like we’re guarding
anything there, really.”

But both the Santa Ana and Fullerton armories, where people sleep on mats
on the floor, will be off limits to the winter shelter program from
Wednesday, April 11, through Friday because of military needs. The county
will do pickups at existing designated spots to transport homeless people
each night to the Free Evangelical Church of Fullerton on Brea Boulevard
until the armories are again available.

It costs $9,000 a night to operate the program at both armories. The
county anticipates the three-month extension will cost $600,000 to
$800,000, according to Susan Price, the director of care coordination who
began overseeing the county’s planning and execution of homeless services
in 2016.

Neither armory in Orange County, which each can sleep around 200 people,
has reached capacity on any night this past winter. The Santa Ana peak was
125 on Feb. 27 and Fullerton hit 159 on March 27, according to county
figures.

But more homeless people could turn to the armories as the tent
encampments disappear, Price said.

Some homeless people will not go to placements that require setting goals, seeking treatment for mental health and substance abuse, and creating
housing plans. Such requirements can be overwhelming and seem like insurmountable barriers, Price said.

“There’s people that go to the armory that have been homeless for awhile,”
she said. “You’ll see them year after year. You don’t see them at the
other shelters. What they really want is meals, a warm bed, some human contact.”

Cities are trying to identify locations for emergency shelter and housing
at the behest of U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, the presiding
judge in a civil rights lawsuit over the dismantling of the riverbed encampments.

As motivation, Carter has threatened to suspend anti-camping and
trespassing laws that cities use to discourage homeless people from
staying in public spaces.

At a court session last week attended by representatives from cities
around the county, Carter said he would like to see at least one site in
each of the three regional planning areas — south, central and north —
that Price has established.

An April 19 meeting of south Orange County mayors to be held in San
Clemente is expected to focus on the judge’s call for cities other than
Santa Ana and Anaheim to do more in providing shelter and housing for a homeless population estimated in 2017 at more than 4,700 people, at least
half of them sleeping outdoor.

The county’s request to extend the armory shelter programs, Price said,
“is buying us some time while the cities deliberate in the regional
planning areas.”

Carter has expressed concern about overcrowding at the two county-operated shelters, Bridges at Kraemer Place in Anaheim and the Courtyard
Transitional Center in Santa Ana, lending an even greater sense of
urgency.

The effort to clear the tent encampment at the Plaza of the Flags area in
Santa Ana’s Civic Center entered its second week Monday. About 200 people
are being moved from in and around the Civic Center mall at the request
of Carter, who, as he did at the riverbed, emphasized humane treatment of
the people being dislodged.

Jorge Garcia, assistant to City Manager Raul Godinez II, said the Orange
County Health Care Agency has completed assessments of everyone living in
the Plaza of the Flags. So far 38 people have been placed in emergency
shelters and other facilities, based on their needs, and others have voluntarily checked in to the Courtyard shelter across from the Civic
Center plaza, Garcia said.

About 100 people or fewer remain in the plaza, and clearing the camp is expected to take another week or two.


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