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There are currently over 1,200 unhoused people living in Butte County according to the 2023 Point-in-Time count, which surveys unhoused residents. Nearly 1,000 of those counted live in Chico where the debate about how to best help our unhoused neighbors continues.
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The Torres Community Shelter says it's working on ways to be more accessible to those in Chico who are unhoused. Also, Shasta County officials have agreed to pay $1.5M to the family of a man who was struck and killed by a sheriff’s deputy patrol vehicle, and Stanford researchers who mapped overhead power lines across California found that lines that pose a wildfire hazard are most likely in low-income communities.