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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in Tulare County public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
Permanent supportive housing capacity nearly exhausted
The county has 235+ behavioral health beds and 136 more coming online at the renamed Monarch facility, but can't force people to accept them. Members and staff discussed how relationship-building at shelters and warming centers might get more unsheltered people into beds and treatment voluntarily.
Blocked HUD grant round threatens housed residents
HUD's 2025 funding notice was pulled after a lawsuit over caps on permanent supportive housing renewals; a federal judge has HUD operating under the 2024 NOFO for now. Roughly 100 people in Tulare County live in PSH funded by these renewals, and losing them could re-houselessness people who have been stably housed for years. A new, tougher NOFO is expected around summer.