Throughout March, the Mobile Access Center will offer a new intake service schedule, which adds a few new stops and two more days of operation.

Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán, who represents part of Long Beach, announced this week that she and three other Democrats have established a Congressional Caucus on Homelessness, which will advocate for funding, policy and seek to educate other lawmakers about the issue.

Long Beach will no longer move forward with plans to set up a temporary winter homeless shelter at a community gym within the Westside’s Silverado Park, officials announced Tuesday, after the city received an outpouring of community opposition last week.

The public can now donate various goods and gift cards to help people who are unhoused at all city library locations and other sites throughout Long Beach. 

The incident happened at around 10:05 a.m. as officers were assisting the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works with outreach, according to the Long Beach Police Department.

Los Angeles County Metro officials will decide at their Thursday meeting whether to initiate a discussion with Long Beach and county homeless service providers on creating a homeless service hub in the city along the agency’s A Line route.

Instead of requiring homeless people to find their way to a facility on the Westside, the mobile center will park around Downtown, offering help with job applications, tracking down IDs and getting into a shelter.

For the first time, a new state report offers a bird-eye view of how much the state has spent to halt homelessness — nearly $10 billion over three years. Of the half-million Californians who made use of those services, more than 40% ended up housed. Which also means the majority did not, or the state lost track of their whereabouts.

Long Beach currently receives about $13.7 million in the county’s Measure H funding, but the mayor says that number should be closer to $25 million.