A new Fresno County homelessness agency will debut as hundreds of emergency shelter beds are closing and funding sources change their mission.

Fresno County supervisors Thursday approved the creation of the Office of Housing Homelessness, a roughly six-person agency tasked with coordinating the dozens of homeless agencies responsible for housing or caring for the roughly 4,500 homeless people in the region.

But major state and federal changes have sharply reduced available resources, with funding cuts resulting in a possible 331 shelter beds closing by June 2026.

President Donald Trump this week also made monumental changes in how the U.S. Housing and Urban Development funds service agencies — diverging from the “Housing First” strategy of the past decade. The Trump administration favor

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