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Kenosha resident urges county to increase support for Shalom Center as homelessness tightens resources
Summary
A resident described homelessness in Kenosha and asked the county to increase funding to the Shalom Center beyond the usual allocation, citing federal funding cuts, rising rents and higher operating costs.
A Kenosha County resident urged the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to increase county funding for the Shalom Center, the county’s largest homeless shelter, saying the organization needs more operating support as federal funding declined and rents rose.
Marita Half (presented in public comment with address on the record) described several people she knows who are homeless or at risk and said the shelter is the community’s only resource to house people during the winter. “The homeless homelessness is a housing problem,” she said. She told the board that the county has provided…
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