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Costa Mesa officials outline city'wide "continuum" of homeless services, cite hundreds housed since 2019
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City staff and partners described a coordinated outreach-to-housing system centered on a city-owned bridge shelter, daily street outreach and county and nonprofit partnerships; officials said the city has housed about 465 people since 2019 and that outreach makes roughly 150 unduplicated contacts per month.
City officials and service providers on Wednesday described the City of Costa Mesa's coordinated "continuum of services" for people experiencing homelessness, and highlighted data and partnerships they said underpin the program.
"The system of care that we've created in the city of Costa Mesa is truly a continuum of services," Neighborhood Improvement Manager Nate Robbins told a standing-room town-hall audience. Robbins said the program pairs early street outreach, a city-owned shelter and a pathway to permanent housing.
The overview emphasized three front-line components: proactive street outreach and engagement, a city-owned bridge shelter that Robbins said has grown to 100 beds, and housing and homelessness-prevention services that include permanent supportive housing and tenant protections. Robbins said outreach makes…
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