At the meeting on January 25, 2021, the Commission on Human Rights of Sonoma County called for the county authorities to respect the rights of people experiencing homelessness and to take steps to resolve the crisis throughout the County. It published a new resolution updating the resolution previously published in 2018. Read the news article […]
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Access in Sonoma County
Republished by permission of author Gerry La Londe-Berg* from his website Who Cares and So What. I received this question about ACCESS Sonoma in the context of the buying of local hotels for the most frail individuals who are homeless (see below). The article says that the Azura homeless residents will have access to something […]
The Continuum of Care Do-Over
By Adrienne Lauby, October 29, 2020 Sonoma County is remaking its structure for spending Federal and local dollars to help homeless people and there’s a scramble among people who want to sit on this powerful board. Why the Do-Over? And, why is it worth paying attention to? The short answer is that […]
Know Your City Candidates
On November 3rd, cities in Sonoma County will elect their city councilors. Homeless Action! believes that our elected leaders should know about the lives and difficulties of our unhoused friends, be willing to work on reducing those difficulties, and help us implement solutions which we demonstrate will work. We also believe that we have the […]
What are Solutions for People Without a Roof?
By Scott Wagner, Project Manager, Sonoma Applied Village Services (SAVS), February/March, 2020. In this bald-faced example of a wealthy county that doesn’t provide their destitute anywhere near adequate shelter, we have several handholds that would help easily. First, the public desperately needs education by their officials that providing basic life services to those experiencing homelessness […]
What it’s like to be a Point In Time Homeless Count Volunteer
By Gail Jonas, a Healdsburg resident. March 3, 2020. For the past two years, I’ve participated in the annual homeless count in Healdsburg. In Sonoma County, we do this count every year, although HUD mandates that it be done every other year. In 2019, our shelterless had experienced two law enforcement actions* against their camps, […]
