The next time Sacramento County officially counts the number of homeless on the streets, City Councilmember Lisa Kaplan has a prediction.

“We all know it’s going to go up,” she told fellow council members last Tuesday. “We don’t have enough beds. We don’t have enough space.”

As a recent fight over an attempt to regionalize homeless governance demonstrated, we don’t have local leaders who are remotely unified on how to start breaking this cycle of dislocation and despair.

But there are signs of change, perhaps quite positive change, on the horizon when it comes to our local governments attempting to manage homelessness in a more unified, effective way. Here are three different things to watch in the coming months that may help swing the homeless pendulum in one direction or another.

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