Health
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VIDEO: A Safe Place to Sleep

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It’s been a little over a year since the Safe Parking site opened below the State Route 67 overpass on North Magnolia Ave in East County. The program has served 104 people onsite, 30% of them being seniors.

Housing
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VIDEO: Safe Parking is Angel’s Answer to a Prayer

| 3:11 PM

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Last summer, the County’s Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities led an effort to transform a freeway underpass into a safe space for people experiencing homelessness and living in their cars. For people like Angel Gomez and his girl Luna, the Safe Parking lot has been life changing.