Cutting homelessness caseworkers considered, despite new agency

Fairfax County officials are weighing whether to cut nine caseworkers who aid hundreds of the county’s homeless, while creating an agency to combat homelessness with a director salaried at $125,000.

The nine positions, all but two of them mental health therapists, are among the hundreds of jobs eliminated under County Executive Anthony Griffin’s proposed budget, which seeks to close a $648 million shortfall for the coming fiscal year.