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California Awards Nearly $200 Million to Move 7,300 People Out of Encampments and Into Housing

LONG BEACH – On June 14, at MacArthur Park, a former encampment site in Long Beach that has proven state funding is leading to successful outcomes for residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California has awarded an additional $199 million to assist 7,300 individuals in encampments move off the streets and into housing. The grants will go to 23 projects in 22 communities statewide with more than half of the projects resolving encampments along state rights-of-way.

The Encampment Resolution Fund or ERF, administered by the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency or BCSH and the California Interagency Council on Homelessness or Cal ICH was designed by the governor and the Legislature to provide communities of all sizes with the funding to move people living in encampments into housing. In total, the administration has proposed providing $750 million to support 10,000 individuals living in dangerous conditions on our streets without shelter.  

In addition to other regions, Los Angeles County will receive $59.5 million to serve 3,000 people on Skid Row.

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