Vouchers available to help the homeless get off the streets Homelessness has been an area of rising concern.
Kern County has been awarded more than 200 emergency vouchers to get homeless people in the county off the streets.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â Kern County has been awarded more than 200 emergency vouchers to get homeless people in the county off the streets.
Prior to the pandemic, there were housing vacancies but now there are more than 2,000 people experiencing homelessness and thousands waiting for a place to stay in Kern. Vouchers are one of our best ways of being able to problem-solve around the issues of homelessness, explained Dr. Anna Laven, executive director of the Bakersfield-Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative.
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When homeless service providers in Bakersfield, California, were working their way down the list of people experiencing chronic homelessness in the area, trying to find housing units for each one, the groups had to solve for a variety of challenges, says Anna Laven, executive director of the Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative. The groups began meeting regularly after joining the Built for Zero campaign to end homelessness in 2015. The cornerstone of the Built for Zero approach is a by-name list of every person experiencing homelessness in different categories chronically homeless, veterans, youth, families, and so on. The collaborative worked to find housing for every person on the list through case conferencing, regularly meeting to discuss individual cases and figure out what it would take to get that person into an apartment.