On Friday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and City of Santa Clarita officials met at City Hall to announce a donation to Bridge to Home. A Bridge To Home homeless shelter donation was announced this week by Supervisor Barger and the Santa Clarita City Council. “This joint announcement will demonstrate the valuable collaboration and the unwavering partnership that we ...

This week, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger responded to the Board of Supervisors’ recent approval of $532,613,000 in homelessness funding. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors’ approval of over $500 million in funding for homelessness was responded to this week by Supervisor Barger. “We’ve dedicated a lot of our time, attention, and resources to address the homelessness crisis,” Supervisor ...

On Monday, Family Promise of Santa Clarita held a groundbreaking ceremony for the organization’s new resource center and housing units. This week, the groundbreaking of Family Promise of Santa Clarita’s new resource center and housing units was held by the organization on an open plot of land in the 23600 block of Newhall Avenue in Newhall, with several notable speakers ...

To combat rising homelessness across the Santa Clarita Valley, the Community Task Force on Homelessness launched a website designed as a one-stop destination for locals to access homelessness services. In a statement released Monday, officials announced that the City of Santa Clarita teamed up with the Community Task Force on Homelessness to launch a new website devoted to attacking rising ...

The number of deaths amongst people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County increased to a record 1,267 in 2019 with drug overdoses the leading cause with the greatest increase, according to a recent report. This is the second annual report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) on mortality among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in LA County ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion Tuesday to seek a formal exemption from conducting the 2021 homeless count. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires local homeless authorities to conduct a Point-in-Time (PIT) count of unsheltered people experiencing homelessness in January of every other year in odd-numbered years. In addition to counting unsheltered ...

The Santa Clarita City Council is set to hold a public hearing to consider donating land valued at $1.6 million, to local homeless outreach organization Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley. On Thursday, officials with the City of Santa Clarita announced the public hearing, which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 10, to discuss authorizing the transfer of 32,220 ...

The number of homeless people living in Santa Clarita has grown by 100 in the last year, according to officials. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) reported their findings on 2019 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. According to this count, the homeless population of Santa Clarita is 256 people. This is about a 60 percent increase from last year’s ...

The results of the 2019 Los Angeles County homeless count were released Tuesday, revealing a 12 percent increase in the number of homeless individuals year-over-year, despite being in the second year since the passage of Measure H. Santa Clarita is a part of Service Planning Area 2, which roughly encompasses the area from Castaic to Universal City vertically and from ...