Santa Barbara County will join other jurisdictions nationwide in participating in two programs aimed at significantly reducing homelessness, including among veterans, in the near future. One of the campaigns, Zero: 2016, comes from New York–based nonprofit Community Solutions, whose goal is to end homelessness within the next two years; Community Solutions will assist in the county’s continuing work to count the number of homeless citizens and find housing for them. The county will also partake in a campaign spearheaded nationally by First Lady Michelle Obama and regionally by Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider, in which mayors lead movements to get veterans housed. Both programs — supported by the Central Coast Collaborative on Homelessness (C3H) — will begin in January, coinciding with the homeless count.