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County reports outreach, shelter and behavioral-health figures in semiannual homelessness update
Summary
County staff told supervisors outreach teams provided more than 25,000 services to 810 people in the unincorporated county during the second half of 2024; shelters enrolled 1,358 people in the same reporting period and system-wide exits to permanent housing and length-of-stay trends were discussed.
Sacramento County officials on March 25 presented their semiannual update on county-led homelessness efforts, reporting outreach and shelter performance figures and flagging capacity and demographic trends officials said will affect near-term responses.
Emily Halken, director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing, told supervisors the county-funded outreach teams enrolled 810 unduplicated individuals during the last six months of 2024 and provided more than 25,000 individual services during that period. "These teams were able to support 184 people during those 6 months to move out of unsheltered homelessness," Halken said, adding that 67 of those moves were directly into permanent housing.
The presentation summarized performance at county-funded shelters for July through December 2024. Key…
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