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Harris Center opens 26 supportive living apartments on reentry campus in Houston
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Harris Center, with city, state and private partners, held a ribbon-cutting for 26 supportive living apartments on its Respite, Rehabilitation and Reentry campus to house people with serious mental illness leaving the criminal justice system and experiencing homelessness.
Officials at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD and partner organizations held a ribbon-cutting at the Harris Center Respite, Rehabilitation and Reentry campus in Houston to open 26 supportive living apartments intended for people with serious mental illness transitioning from the criminal justice system and experiencing homelessness.
The apartments are meant to integrate housing with behavioral-health services located across the parking lot from the new units, Harris Center leadership said. “These apartments represent that vision in action,” Wayne Young, who leads the Harris Center, said at the event.
Mayor Whitmire said the project required sustained effort from multiple partners. “What the hell took it so long? It took leadership, took commitment, took vision, took…
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