The Assembly also directed $1.3 million to a nonprofit organization for the purchase of vacant and abandoned properties to renovate into housing.
have focused largely on sheltering people in hotel rooms, though officials have said the city needs at least one congregate shelter.
Changes to Tuesday’s funding measure also included postponing the transfer of about $300,000 in unspent funds to the Health Department until the next regular Assembly meeting, when members plan to vote on another The resolution also stipulates that any congregate emergency shelter will be for 150 people maximum, and any warming centers funded by the resolution can’t be at the same location as an emergency shelter. Food services will be required at any shelter, according to the measure.
Assembly member Randy Sulte said he initially proposed a resolution calling for the administration to examine the site for a possible navigation center connecting homeless residents to social services and housing resources.
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