Your Tax Dollars at Work: Fewer Malibu Homeless
Written by 991KBU on June 13, 2018
Efforts to help people living on the street in Malibu … or in the canyons … or hidden behind the Civic Center …. have gotten results.
As we reported last week … the annual homeless count in Malibu shows a 14 percent drop this year.
That’s slightly less than the overall decline reported in Western L-A County … but a significant drop nonetheless.
From 180 homeless people in Malibu … down to 155.
Burt Ross … a volunteer with the Malibu Task Force on Homelessness.
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“In only 20 months, 48 of Malibu’s homeless people who were engaged by the People Concerns outreach team, have found either permanent or interim housing.
“Forty-eight people going to sleep tonight with roofs over their heads.
The city budget for next year includes funding to continue and expand the outreach program … already underway … Ross says.
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“This is to the best of my knowledge, for the first in our city’s history, that money has been allocated as a line item in our budget to deal exclusivelty with our community’s homeless population.”
The seemingly intractable problem of people unable to find shelter in California is bigger than Malibu … but regional efforts to get people under roofs is also having tangible results right here at home
