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Editor,
According to the 2022 homeless count, there are 247 unhoused individuals in Redwood City. It has been reported that this represents an increase from the 2019 homeless count. But this is misleading. At the time of the count, 74 of the 247 individuals were safely housed in their RVs in the Safe Parking program. If these 74 individuals are subtracted from the total, the number of truly homeless is actually 173, which represents a decrease in the total from 2019.
I hear a lot from residents concerned about the number of unhoused individuals in Redwood City, and I think the community deserves to know more about the city’s successes addressing homelessness. Redwood City’s Safe Parking Program (March 7 edition of the Daily Journal) that created a supportive community for those living in their vehicles became a model for other communities. Redwood City staff do regular outreach to the unhoused (70% of whom are encamped on county, not city land). Outreach staff has more than doubled in the past six months. Services are well-coordinated with the county and a network of nonprofits and shelter providers who serve the diverse unhoused population meeting them where they are in terms of needs and readiness to accept help. Creative use of Project Homekey funds has resulted in an increase in transitional housing (such as the soon-to-be-completed Navigation Center) and permanent housing (like Casa Esperanza). Functional Zero, the goal of ending homelessness, may be ambitious, but Redwood City is heading in the right direction.
Margaret Becker
Redwood City
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Thanks Margaret, it's good to hear some success stories. It's hard to hear people who dismiss the unhoused as being addicted or mentally ill. In fact, some are, and some of those are because the stress of being without shelter aggravates or causes it. And then there are those with other disabilities, such as physical disabilities or being the primary caregiver of small children (a major disability in our society), or have lost everything to medical bankruptcy or as a result of protracted periods of being an unpaid caregiver for a loved one (as happened to someone I know). So many ways to fall through the cracks.
Unfortunately many of the unhoused are addicts and mentally ill. For many others the cost of land and construction is too high for them to afford housing here. But many of those people would be better of they moved to where housing is more affordable. The married children of many of our friends have done so and they're happier for having moved to towns surrounding the Bay Area.
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