ELB gets homeless outreach mobile van visits

 East Long Beach gets visit  by Multi-Service Center mobile van  

The van known as the Mobile Access Center (MAC) arrived in East Long Beach’s Los Altos Center on Monday March 6, 2023. 

 

According to the outreach workers the MAC van first parked in the Los Altos Market Center between the Sears building and the Wells Fargo Building.  Early in the morning, Fourth District Councilman Daryl Supernaw visited them and advised them the Los Altos Center North (LACN) across the street was were the homeless tended to congregate.  The MAC van moved across Sterns Street to the LACN in the center of the parking lot under the shopping centers marquee sign.

The outreach workers said they had spoke to a few people and encouraged anyone to tell the homeless that they would return Monday and Thursday mornings to the area. Thursdays they are scheduled to be parked  in the Bellflower and 23^rd Street area.

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The MAC van has been operating in the downtown area since January.  According to media reports, the City of Long Beach has plans to add two more MAC vans.

Last week Mayor Richardson tweeted an update on the MAC's outreach data. The Mayor tweeted that as of February 27th the MAC has “helped 414 people experiencing homelessness” and connected 204 people (49%)  to “services” .

The offical announcement that the MAC would rotate into the  Los Altos Village for 2 days during the week came after Mayor Richardson made a surprise visit to Councilman DarylSupernaw’s monthly community meeting last week on Tuesday February 28, 2023.  At that meeting the Mayor was asked by a community member when the MAC would be visiting East Long Beach. Mayor Richardson replied that the were plans were to have the MAC  rotate around the city after the initial work downtown.

Three days later on Friday March 3, 2023 the City of Long Beach released a press releasewith the MAC’s March schedule.   

Councilman Supernaw has the longest running community meetings and weekly  newsletters of anyone currently on the City Council.   Supernaw’s meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month.  Councilman Supernaw’s  District 4  newsletter is emailed every Friday at 1:30 pm.  You can sign-up for the newsletter by emailing your request to district4@longbeach.gov.

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Friday March 3,  2023  City of Long Beach released  press release