City of Santa Cruz is doing well on homelessness, but needs to address gaps, including broken shelter showers

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Lookout politics columnist and former five-time mayor of Santa Cruz Mike Rotkin is a bit annoyed by what he is reading in Lookout and other publications about homelessness. He thinks the city is doing a good job overall, but says it could tend more carefully to needed repairs in shelters, particularly showers. The homeless problem in Santa Cruz is not a lack of beds or affordable housing, he writes. It’s bigger…

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