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 […]
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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, […]
