City highlights homelessness response: housing-first approach and daily outreach
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Summary
A city speaker summarized the homelessness system of care launched in 2020 and said the program helps about 400 Corona residents each day while emphasizing housing-first strategies and supportive services.
At the event, Speaker 18 outlined the city's homelessness response, describing how supportive services and shelter placements are being used to connect people to permanent housing.
"Some of our residents, they moved into shelter. They were wrapped like a blanket with supportive services to get stabilized and then connected to permanent housing," said Speaker 18, demonstrating the city's housing-first framing. Speaker 18 added, "We help about 400 Corona residents every day," a figure offered to illustrate system throughput.
The speaker traced the current system back to a homeless plan approved by the city council in June 2020 and framed housing as central to ending homelessness. The update did not provide a detailed breakdown of program funding, eligibility criteria, or longitudinal outcomes; officials described the work as ongoing and emphasized supportive services and shelter-to-permanent-housing pathways.
The city did not announce new policy actions or funding streams during the briefing; officials suggested continued operations and coordination with regional partners as next steps.