{"id":215618,"date":"2026-03-11T23:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:54:21","slug":"how-should-california-hhap-funds-be-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215618\/","title":{"rendered":"How should California HHAP funds be spent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno and Madera Counties are receiving $10 million through California\u2019s Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program \u2014 funding local leaders say they rely on each year to help move people off the streets and into housing.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2023, HHAP has helped place more than 94,000 people into permanent housing statewide, including over 4,000 in Fresno and Madera Counties. Despite that progress, the latest Point-in-Time Count shows more than 4,300 people remain unhoused across the two counties.<\/p>\n<p>County officials say the new funding will primarily be used to expand existing services and add more shelter beds, rather than launch new programs.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to know what you think:<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-madera-counties-to-get-101m-in-california-hhap-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno, Madera counties to get $10.1M in California HHAP funds <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno and Madera Counties are receiving $10 million through California\u2019s Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-215618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}