To better help the homeless, Golden Empire Affordable Housing opened a new development designed to provide low-income families with affordable housing.
Here at 23ABC, homelessness is one of our signature issues and organizations here locally are trying to tackle that problem, through data-driven approaches to get people in permanent housing.
City officials of Bakersfield said there has been an increase in the unsheltered population, 309 homeless individuals were reported in 2018 which then rose to 842 in 2020.