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Countywide Homelessness Plan Draws Mixed Reaction from Lompoc, Santa Maria Leaders


Two Lompoc council members balk at regional collaboration amid complaints about past funding
A homeless encampment in the Santa Ynez Riverbed in Lompoc. City officials there, in discussing a countywide collaboration on homeless issues, complained that the city does not get its fair share of resources. (Lompoc Police Department photo)
By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
May 10, 2021
| 9:46 p.m.
The second phase of a countywide plan to address homelessness prompted praise from one North County city and criticism from council members in another amid concerns Lompoc doesn t get its fair share of resources.
But the reception was dramatically different.  ....

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