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Fresno Mayor’s New Homeless Initiative Is A Change Of Tone To Homeless Advocates

About a quarter of the nation’s homeless population live in California with most of them concentrated in the state’s larger cities, including Fresno. Governor Brown has responded in his latest budget by including $ 500 million in grants for cities to address homelessness. Fresno Mayor Lee Brand went to Sacramento to lobby in support of this funding. Despite years of work on the problem, the city’s homeless population is still significant. Some have said in recent times that Fresno has spent too much time and efforts criminalizing homelessness, referencing the so-called camping ban. But at his State of the City address last month, Mayor Brand announced a new initiative that may strike a balance between cleaning up streets and offering assistance that homeless advocates agree with. One person who might have taken advantage of this new project is Tammy Guzman. After a bad divorce, she was homeless on and off for six years. She spent time on the streets in California, then tried living in
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