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Nathaly Santana with her sister, whom she adopted. Orange County United Way’s housing assistance program, Welcome Home OC, helped Santana, a former foster youth, with housing. (Photo provided by Nathaly Santana)

200 former foster youths housed through OC United Way assistance program

September 21, 2026

City Net Data Specialist Stephen Su and Julie Bechtol, manager in the OC Office of Care Coordination, right, talk to a man for the Everyone Counts, Point In Time survey in Tustin, CA on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. The county-wide survey provides data on the homeless population. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

2026 Point In Time Count: Orange County’s homeless population down 14% in two years

May 18, 2026

Volunteers Jorge Solorzano, left, a Health Coach at CalOptima; Yolie Negrete, center, a program supervisor at City Net, and Katherine Ibarra, right, of the Garden Grove Regional Center, speak with homeless individuals in the entrance to a building on W. Civic Center Drive in downtown Santa Ana early Tuesday morning, Jan. 23, 2024. Volunteers for the Everyone Counts, Point In Time, a homeless survey, spread out throughout central Orange County on Tuesday, the first day of the survey, to gather data that will help address homeless issues. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The biennial homeless count begins in Orange County. Here’s why you should care

January 27, 2026

17,145 is spelled out as the number of people who are experiencing homelessness in Orange County as volunteers form the shape of a home, December, 13, 2025, at the Championship Soccer Stadium in Great Park, Irvine. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)

Spelling out what’s at stake in the fight to end homelessness and hunger in OC

December 14, 2025

Chapman Hamborg being interviewed by KTLA 5 News

California dad with baby mistaken for homeless man, police called

June 5, 2025

‘Just a tired dad.’ Huntington Beach father who was mistaken as homeless speaks out

June 2, 2025

Chapman Hamborg, with his self-portrait at left, at the Hamborg Academy of Art studio in Huntington Beach. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer)

Huntington Beach man using ‘homeless’ moment to spread awareness

May 24, 2025

Fourth Annual Orange County State of Homelessness Address

State of Homelessness message: More housing is needed in OC to address homeless crisis

January 30, 2025

United to End Homelessness