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Recent moves by the City of Soledad helps house those living along the riverbed, while setting the stage for workforce housing.
Opinion

Recent moves by the City of Soledad helps house those living along the riverbed, while setting the stage for workforce housing.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Mar 20, 2025

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about the upcoming transitional housing for unhoused residents coming to South County and the efforts agencies ar…

Sun Street Centers plans a home for sober living and intensive youth outreach.
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Sun Street Centers plans a home for sober living and intensive youth outreach.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 30, 2023

In 55 years of helping people struggling with addiction, Sun Street Centers has perhaps not faced a greater challenge than the fentanyl crisis…

The county receives $11.3 million from the state to restore homes for people at risk.
News

The county receives $11.3 million from the state to restore homes for people at risk.

  • Pam Marino
  • Sep 14, 2023

Four months ago, the 55-unit Pueblo del Mar sober living community in Marina was at risk of closing and displacing six families after the Hous…

Solutions exist to help end homelessness, but we need neighbors who are willing to say yes.
Forum | Opinion

Solutions exist to help end homelessness, but we need neighbors who are willing to say yes.

  • Staci Alziebler-Perkins
  • Mar 17, 2022

If there’s one thing the last three years should have taught us, it’s compassion. A global pandemic, social turmoil, and now a brutal war serv…

Efforts to shelter Salinas' displaced homeless inching forward.
News

Efforts to shelter Salinas' displaced homeless inching forward.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Jun 16, 2016

In late March, the city of Salinas hired a handful of workers to pick up what was left from the encampments of some 200 homeless residents in …

Local Spin | Opinion

Salinas votes to spend hundreds of thousands on sweeping out homeless.

  • Mary Duan
  • Oct 15, 2015

Salinas’ Chinatown is a sight to behold. On any given night, hundreds of people live on its streets, surrounded by whatever personal belongings they have…

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