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Oxnard highlights grants, shelter expansions and reported reductions in homelessness

City of Oxnard · February 17, 2026
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City staff summarized recent grants and provider outcomes—$93 million in state behavioral health funds countywide, $28 million in CoC awards, a $4 million encampment grant that relocated 88 people, and reported 15.7% reduction in Oxnard homelessness in 2025.

City staff detailed recent funding and program outcomes related to homelessness in Oxnard and Ventura County.

Samantha Shapiro said the County of Ventura secured more than $93,000,000 in state funding for behavioral health infrastructure to help develop two residential treatment facilities, and that the CoC region received six rounds of Homeless Assistance and Prevention Program funding totaling over $28,000,000.

Shapiro described a…

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