Reading Time: 4 minutes Homelessness is up in Merced County, the latest numbers in an annual survey of sheltered and unsheltered residents show. What the 2026 Point-In-Time Count report, published last Friday, doesn’t explicitly show is that shelter capacity is also up – and in urgent demand. “One of the biggest things that I can say is we are lacking a lot in shelter,” Victoria Taylor, the program manager for Merced City and County Continuum…
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