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Luis Chavez: “About 800 of those [homeless] are what we call the chronic…”

Featuring: Luis Chavez, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, District 3 | California

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Fresno County Board of Supervisors District 3 Candidate Forum - February 12, 2024

Published | Video Starts at 27:06

… conversation is really what's more challenging, because we know that out of the homeless numbers that we have, the, you know, thousands of folks that are living in the streets, About 800 of those [homeless] are what we call the chronic homeless folks. The folks that have mental health, substance abuse, they have a lot of, you know, medical conditions that oftentimes they don't have access to medicine on an ongoing basis. (27:06–27:10)

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Asserts that approximately 800 homeless individuals are chronically homeless.

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