OC Officials Break Ground on New Homeless Shelter in Huntington Beach

OC Officials Break Ground on New Homeless Shelter in Huntington Beach
A homeless encampment made of tents and tarps lines the Santa Ana riverbed near Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 25, 2018. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
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Orange County officials gathered in Huntington Beach, California, on Aug. 27 to break ground on the city’s new 174-bed homeless shelter.

The new shelter, dubbed the Navigation Center, will help alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis by giving transients a place to stay and receive services while transitioning to housing security. By providing beds, the shelter will also allow the city to enforce anti-camping ordinances in city parks.