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"Rural, isolated and immense, Del Norte is home to one of the nation’s largest
undammed rivers and some of the world’s only remaining acres of virgin redwood
forest. Fewer than 28,000 people are spread across the county’s 1,000 square
miles, land mostly owned by the state or the federal government.
Coastal Highway 101 runs right through Crescent City, the county’s only real
town. People who are homeless in the region tend to gravitate here because it’s
hard to survive anywhere else. “People need to eat,” said Heather Snow, the
county’s director of health and human services.
By California standards, the homeless population in Del Norte is small.
According to the most recent survey, there were about 250 people without
shelter in 2020. That is almost certainly an underestimate, but, still, the
figure pales in comparison to cities in the Bay Area and Southern California,
with their tens of thousands living unsheltered.
California’s spiraling housing crisis is often understood through the lens of
its big cities, where the sheer number of people who need assistance can
quickly capsize the programs designed to move people into housing. But before
the pandemic, helping people find shelter in Del Norte had been an
insurmountable problem for Snow and her colleagues, as well.
There’s not enough housing in general in Del Norte, let alone for people with
precarious finances. Snow lived 30 minutes north, in Brookings, Oregon, when
she started her job six years ago. It took years to find somewhere closer to
live. And there’s never been a homeless shelter anywhere in the county, as far
as she knows."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
