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DESCRIPTION:With water, portapotty, bathroom, shower, electrical connection, phone 
 recharging and virtually all other services to those outside severed as of 
 April 1st, the City-funded Housing Matters complex is severely impacting 
 the health and welfare of hundreds of folks outside as well as the 
 well-being of the broader Santa Cruz community.\n\nThe City Council and the 
 Board of Supervisors colluded in cutting off the mail service more than a 
 week ago, reportedly moving it to the Emeline complex.\n\nMillions of 
 dollars in government money has been provided for "Encampment Removal" for 
 "Funding Matters: (as some of us call "Housing Matters").  Executive 
 Director Phil Kramer apparently plans to close off and drive away folks 
 encamped outside the entrance to his Poverty Palace.   Indeed funding has 
 been apparently rerouted to build more buildings, pay more staff, and fund 
 the regular destruction of survival encampments at Funding Matters' 
 doorstep. \n\nOne of the excuses floated by Kramer's management which may 
 include "Progressives" like Don Lane --ask him!)  is that the presence of 
 squalid camps along Coral St. nearby may "traumatize" other folks being put 
 into an adjacent building newly constructed as part of Kramer's 
 "campus".\n\nWater and Survival Stew will be available until it runs out 
 along with donations from Food Not Bombs, Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz, and the 
 Santa Cruz Chapter of the California Homeless Union.  \n\nHUFF volunteers 
 may be providing placards and signboards for Coral St. residents to define 
 their own reaction to the situation, their plans, and their 
 suggestions.\n\nThey'll also be providing petitions ranging from anti-war 
 demands to bathroom accessibility and the survival emergency.as the 
 government's Middle East War tightens the noose around housed and unhoused 
 alike.\n\nMore information critical and otherwise is available on the 
 background of the "Funding Matters" closing at  
 \nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/14/18882213.php  Worse and 
 worse--Santa Cruz Shitty Council and Those Begging at Their 
 Doorstep\n\nMilder 
 takes:\nhttps://lookout.co/city-county-have-some-interim-replacements-for-shuttering-day-services-but-long-term-solutions-remain-uncertain/story 
 \n\nhttps://lookout.co/santa-cruz-nonprofit-housing-matters-to-end-homeless-day-services-sparking-staff-backlash/story 
 \n\nhttps://lookout.co/the-facts-on-housing-matters-day-services-dont-match-the-narrative/story\n 
 \n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/06/18885442.php
SUMMARY:In Response to "Housing Matters" Service Cut-Off on April 1st
LOCATION:115 Coral St. in front of the Funding Matters poverty-industrial complex
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/06/18885442.php
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