Last year, Huntington Beach set out to end homelessness in 90 days. The city increased outreach to homeless residents and business owners and beefed-up enforcement in parks and public spaces. They ...

The city’s HOPE (Helping People Out Everywhere) team will focus on mental health issues, reaching beyond the homeless population and serving all Huntington Beach residents.

Huntington Beach leaders expressed thanks to the Orange County Board of Supervisors for its vote Tuesday to scrap a plan to have county staff study moving hundreds of homeless people to temporary ...

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer and Huntington Beach Police Department Chief Julian Harvey said the Be Well OC program frees up law enforcement to fight crime - not treat people ...

Huntington Beach officials announced Monday, April 8, that the city is looking to buy an 11,200-square-foot warehouse at 15311 Pipeline Lane to house a 75- to 90-bed facility.

A new facility dedicated to homeless services will open in Huntington Beach this month. The center will provide emergency shelter for 174 adult men and women. Larry Haynes, the CEO of Mercy House ...

As Huntington Beach faces increasing pressure to create a homeless shelter, the City Council took stock of the issue this week with input from public safety officials, city staff members and a ...

In 2021, the city’s homeless task force made 4,441 outreach contacts to the 300 or so unhoused people living in Huntington Beach. The shelter allows Huntington Beach police to enforce anti ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A special meeting to vote on the purchase of a property for a homeless shelter ran late into Thursday night with a packed house at Huntington Beach City Hall.

A Huntington Beach father whose neighbor called police after mistaking him as a homeless man is using his art to change the conversation around homelessness and parenthood. Chapman Hamborg drew ...

The two-person civilian team — an emergency medical technician and a clinically trained counselor — is touted as the first such city program of its kind in Orange County. The city’s HOPE (Helping ...