Housing Insecurity

Clark County Creates Transition Housing for Unhoused Individuals

Clark County rehabilitated a motel to provide temporary housing to unhoused individuals. Read more about the Clark County Navigation Center:

Jarah Wright, Clark County Navigation Center now open, provides temporary housing for homeless, ABC 13 KNTV Las Vegas, Aug. 04, 2024.

Ricardo Torres-Cortez, ‘They’ve been wonderful’: Clark County converts another motel to house those experiencing homelessness, Las Vegas Review Journal, Aug. 4, 2023.

Assembly Bill 135 (2023)

Revises provisions relating to homelessness. (BDR 40-324)

AN ACT relating to homelessness; revising the process for persons who are homeless to apply for a certified or official copy of a birth certificate; revising certain information required to be included on an identification card issued to a pupil; requiring the Nevada Housing Crisis Response System to assist persons in crisis who are applying for a state identification card; revising requirements for the issuance of a state identification card to certain homeless children and youth; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Section 9 effective June 10, 2023. Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, 7, and 8 of this act effective on October 1, 2023. Sections 4, 5, and 6 of this act effective on January 1, 2026.

Primary Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

A longer description and the full text of the bill are available on the Nevada Legislature’s website here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/9785/Overview.

Source: The information in this post is excerpted as quotes from the Nevada Legislature’s website.