Homeless Proposals Face Challanges

City leaders have been working on changes to the Homeless Services Center on Coral Street and other areas. (Chip Scheuer)

When Charles Edwards, a mentally ill homeless man from San Francisco, stabbed Camouflage co-owner Shannon Collins on Ocean Street in May, he sent shockwaves through the Santa Cruz community. “Everyone felt so much pressure to act,” Rowland Rebele says of the intense debate over the city’s homeless problem that arose after Collins’ murder.

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