What has your LOC been working on for the past 4 weeks?
The Homelessness & Housing LOC has continued to monitor the city master siting plan implementation, and have been in communication with other advocacy and service organizations in discussing ways to monitor and influence the city's approach to responsibly implement this plan. We have also been monitoring the County discussions about the American Rescue Plan Funds, and most recently also began reviewing some of the city and county proposals for use of ARPA HUD funding.
Research Meetings
We had a research meeting with Emily Halcon, who recently became Director of Homeless Initiatives with Sacramento County. Our LOC has been in relationship with her for some time, and this research meeting gave us some insight into this new role that she has stepped into and ways that we can deepen our advocacy at the county level. We also had a research meeting with County Supervisor, Patrick Kennedy. from County District 2. This meeting happened shortly after the tragic mobile home park fires in South Sacramento, which was within his district. We discussed affordable housing, code enforcement, and other ways that we can get involved.
