CHICO — The city scheduled anti-camping enforcements to include at least 12 homeless people, with advanced noticing beginning April 19 at Lost Park, the bike path by Skyway and Highway 99 north; as well as an empty parcel by Humboldt Avenue between Pine and Olive streets. The city determined that six homeless people live by …
CHICO — In the span of nearly two years since Chico resumed anti-camping ordinance enforcements, after being sued and banned from doing so in 2021, its four-phase process requiring advance notices to homeless people to vacate public property has been conducted 19 times, as counted by this newspaper. The city is set for its 20th …
CHICO — Unsheltered homeless people in areas of Chico were given notice to start packing up early Wednesday morning as part of an enforcement process following settlement terms of Warren v. Chico. They were familiar with the process, and a few shared their lived experiences and how they are at working toward shelter — or …
BY JEANNE KUANG In summary The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that has implications for how much power California officials have over homeless camps. It will rule on current precedent later this year. The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on whether cities can legally ban or limit unhoused people camping in public …
CHICO — On the heels of an emergency Chico City Council meeting that brought out a chamber full of impassioned citizens on a weekend, Safe Space Chico and city officials found common ground in a conversation Tuesday afternoon. Safe Space confirmed that the parking lot at Trinity United Methodist Church will remain the site of …
CHICO — A half-block from the new site for Safe Space Chico’s winter shelter intake center, the Chico City Council met Saturday afternoon in a packed chambers to discuss further options. The result — after nearly two hours on a weekend, announced before a sliver of the original capacity crowd — is the organization must …
CHICO — The cooperation of shelter-, housing- and homeless service providers coming together in 2023 helped accommodate people experiencing homelessness in Butte County. In Chico, changes in approaches to helping unhoused people progressed forward this year, including True North Housing Alliance lowering barriers to entry to the Torres Community Shelter; the Jesus Center expanding services …
CHICO — Circling back on a declared shelter crisis in 2021, Chico reported numeric outcomes of progress made in the city during fiscal year 2022-2023 in a Dec. 19 letter to state agencies. According to the report, 1,290 people were served in emergency shelters in Chico from Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 30, 2023. It …
CHICO — Temperatures are dropping — approaching freezing next week — and local Chico churches and Safe Space Chico are once again stepping up to make space for people without shelter to keep warm and safe during winter nights through March. In years past, the low-barrier winter shelter program in Chico has served about 35 …
CHICO — Checking into the Torres Community Shelter became a bit simpler Monday with drug and alcohol testing no longer required. True North Housing Alliance, which operates the shelter, put into effect a long awaited move to change the policy to no longer require drug and alcohol testing for each guest looking to stay at …