Ugochi Anaebere-Nicholson, a staff attorney with the Public Interest Law Project, said at Tuesday’s meeting that homeless people shouldn’t be criminalized.

“It is undeniable that the crisis of houselessness has been exacerbated by the high cost of housing, lack of adequate support and affordable and supportive housing in our state,” she said during public comment.

“However, the proposed resolution must be amended to identify, adopt and employ evidence based solutions that have been proven to address houselessness and reject draconian measures such as citation and arrest that are used to punish persons without housing.”

Read the full story by Hosam Elattar in the Voice of Orange County here.