Efforts to help and house Orange County’s homeless may become more fruitful under a soon-to-be hired “homeless czar” and the formation of a faith-based coalition focused on Santa Ana’s Civic Center, site of the county’s highest concentration of people living on the streets.
County officials confirmed that Susan Price, who has been the point person on homeless issues for the city of Long Beach, is expected to start work May 27 as Orange County’s social care coordinator, a job that entails streamlining and centralizing the way the county addresses homelessness.
County Supervisor Andrew Do, who in September proposed the new position, wants accountability – measurable goals that show actual results from the millions of dollars intended to reduce homelessness.
“Part of the frustration that I have is we can tell the public how many millions of meals we served each year, how many beds are available,” Do said Monday, “but we don’t have any metrics to determine whether the effort was effective in helping individuals not be homeless.”
Price joined the Long Beach Health Department in 2003 as its homeless services officer and eventually oversaw the distribution of the city’s federal funding for the homeless.
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