Encampments continue to pop up in residential and commercial areas because people have nowhere else to go.  The status quo of our county isn't working.

Across the state, some of the most vulnerable include the unhoused, whose numbers have increased by at least 22,500 in the last three years to about 172,000.  

The City Council voted Tuesday to build 400 more emergency interim housing units, buy Arena Hotel with state funds and finance 561 new affordable housing units.