Homelessness

Chico sees rise in 'risky heat days.' Also, residents of a Sacramento encampment are struggling with the heat, and a bill that would require anti-overdose medicine in public spaces died in the California Legislature.

Organizers of a petition to recall Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye can begin gathering signatures today. Also, California lawmakers are debating extending a law to make it easier for more law enforcement officers and firefighters to receive workers’ compensation for job-related PTSD, and a new bill would require California cities to provide shelter for unhoused residents.

Inside Chico’s Pallet Shelter village, just over a year since it opened.

The city of Chico began enforcing its anti-camping ordinances at its sanctioned encampment in north Chico. Also, state school officials with the California Department of Education say some districts have been covering up their expulsion rates, and a new bill would require training for referendum petition circulators.

Some seniors have been homeless for years and are now growing older. But the increasing numbers also reflect another trend: those experiencing homelessness for the first time after age 50.

Construction has begun in Redding on a micro-shelter community for unhoused residents. Also, the Chico City Council is set to discuss a diagonal-parking proposal for the downtown area, and recovery continues following January’s powerful winter storms.

Volunteers for the ‘Point In Time’ count set out in Butte County Wednesday to collect demographic information on people experiencing homelessness. The survey is required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and helps local agencies apply for federal funding.

The Butte County Department of Public Health reported the first two flu-related deaths of the 2023 flu season Thursday. Also, a Chico nonprofit drops off aid to unhoused residents during winter storms, and the Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus said it will be introducing resolutions to impact gun safety laws in California.

A winter storm is bringing weather watches and warnings to the North State beginning tomorrow. Plus, more than twenty apartments were damaged in an aftershock earthquake near Rio Dell on New Year’s Day. And a new law in California requires data collection on people who leave prison only to become homeless.

The Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT) is hoping to open a tiny home village for unhoused residents in November, after breaking ground on the site last month.