NEWS: New Approach Proposed to Encourage Those Experiencing Homelessness to Accept Shelter Offers
San Mateo County, California sent this bulletin at 01/18/2024 05:03 PM PST
Jan. 18, 2024
For Immediate Release
New Approach Proposed to Encourage Those Experiencing Homelessness to Accept Shelter Offers
Board to consider ordinance promoting shelter, prohibiting illegal encampments
Redwood City – The Board of Supervisors, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, will consider a new approach to encourage individuals experiencing homelessness to accept offers of shelter and support.
The proposed ordinance regulating encampments on public property in unincorporated San Mateo County is intended to help the County achieve its goal of making homelessness brief and rare.
The effort — formally known as the “Hopeful Horizons: Empowering Lives Initiative”— is aimed at mitigating fire risks, unsanitary conditions and public safety and health hazards for the benefit of both those living in an unregulated encampment and the surrounding community, with a goal of moving individuals into shelter.
