Casa Esperanza Transitional Home for Women and Children has found a new executive director in Diane Contreras, former director of operations at Flood Bakersfield Ministries.
The Bakersfield City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee met Tuesday to take stock of the city's ongoing efforts to move people off the street and into permanent housing.
At a recent "lunch & learn," county officials talked to Austin-based charity Mobile Loaves and Fishes about a housing strategy they say works to pull people out of chronic homelessness.
This year's PIT Count found that a little under 2,000 people in Kern County experience homeless. This is more than last year, but more of those people are sheltered now.
The Kern-Bakersfield Regional Homeless Collaborative has released the findings from the 2023 Point-in-Time Count of people experiencing homelessness in Kern County.