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FAIRFIELD — Jose Soto laid tile for a living – and he made a good living. Then his knees and legs forced him into disability, and his income level dropped significantly. “I had money in the bank, but the bank wasn’t giving me anything, so I decided to buy that property,” said Soto, 59, referring to a single-family home on Fifth Street in Fairfield. He purchased it in December 2008. He also rented part of his primary residence on Utah Street, and combined, the rental income brought his overall income back up to where he needed it to be. “I was doing pretty good . . . until Covid-19 because I was collecting rent from (the Fifth Street property) and here,” said Soto, who has lived in Fairfield with his wife since 2000. His daughter and granddaughter have occasionally lived there, too. “Then they stopped paying rent.” Soto said that the woman living in his primary residence did lose her job because of the pandemic shutdown. She apparently did not apply for the rental assistance program, but she was receiving government assistance to help for her two children: a daughter who has mental health issues and a son who had been shot and was bound to a wheelchair. See Eviction, Page A8

SOLANO GRAND JURY REPORT

County stumbles through expansive rental assistance program Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The 2021-22 Solano County civil grand jury took up the Emergency Rental Assistance Program as a case study and found “that decisions about how to dispense the funds were made with unrealistic and unreasonable assumptions about local capacity to implement the program in the time frame available.” The county received $43 million in federal and state funds for the program. “However, short timelines, complicated and evolving regulations, and different restrictions from the state and federal governments created challenges locally and throughout the state for distribution of the funds to those most needing assistance,” the grand jury report states. The report highlights seven specific areas of concerns with the “intent . . . to identify areas for improvement that could apply to future situations.” Among those are a greater attention on technology to be used and necessary training, and staffing levels as well. The report adds that the grand jury “recognizes that ERAP implementation occurred during challenging times. Choices made with good intentions resulted in an overloaded and understaffed program, impeding the goals and See County, Page A8

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Little has been done to address homelessness Todd R. Hansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County civil grand jury issued a critical report on the response of local governments to homelessness, and suggested the lack of oversight and accountability “opens the door to the potential for a homeless industrial complex that benefits the nonprofits without accomplishing the task at hand.” It echoes other statewide and national reviews that have suggested homelessness has become a billion-dollar industry that lacks the motivation to solve the problem if that means losing income. The report warns Solano County

not to stumble into the same pitfalls of San Francisco, which has spent $2.8 billion on homelessness since 2016-17 but has experienced an increase in the homeless population. However, the grand jury also states in its recommendations the need to find more funding sources to meet the service issues, not the least of which, as the report notes, is more housing. “To successfully address homelessness in Solano County requires that the county and cities work together to secure housing in their respective communities,” the report states. The report also is critical of Shelter Solano Inc. as the primary homeless shelter in Fairfield,

stating the nonprofit “is not currently operating at full capacity or meeting stakeholder (service providers, funders, government entities and Solano County citizens) expectations.” The report also recommends the tracking and reporting of funds between Shelter Solano Inc. and its parent company, Shelter Inc., be more transparent and more clearly defined. Additionally the grand jury “identified many gaps along the continuum of homeless services, which prevent Solano County from effectively supporting those experiencing homelessness.”

Jan. 6 hearing witnesses: Trump claims might have ‘started a new civil war’ Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Faced with no legal path to staying in office, former President Donald Trump summoned supporters to Washington to pressure Congress to overturn the 2020 election results, a move far-right extremists saw as a cue to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the House committee investigating the insurrection argued in Tuesday’s hearing. Members of the panel used the seventh public hearing to cover an extended timeline from the Electoral College’s Dec. 14, 2020, meeting to affirm Joe Biden’s win

until Jan. 6, 2021, when the electoral vote count in Congress was interrupted by the attack on the Capitol. The committee presented evidence and testimony on the preparations for the insurrection by extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, whose members have since been charged with sedition. Reps. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., led the questioning of witnesses Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson for the Oath Keepers, and Stephen Ayres, a rioter who pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol building and told the committee

that he only went there because Trump urged his supporters to do so in his speech. “It was going to be an armed revolution,” Van Tatenhove said of the violence on Jan. 6. “People

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