Orange County Supervisors are struggling with how to move people out of their shelters and into housing amid concerns that many homeless residents are spending years in what’s meant to be a short term stay.
But the fault doesn’t lie on homeless people or the shelters operators according to county supervisors, but on the county’s lack of affordable housing.
The concerns around the shelters came up as supervisors approved over $45 million in new contracts for the nonprofit People Assisting the Homeless to run both county shelters, managing over 600 shelter beds…