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Tompkins County social services reports 70 people in Roadway shelter; caseworker credited with housing families
Summary
Department of Social Services Commissioner Britney Earl told the Housing & Economic Development Committee that 70 people are currently in the Roadway shelter and credited a state-funded senior caseworker with housing more than half of families who entered shelter this year.
Britney Earl, commissioner of the Tompkins County Department of Social Services, told the Housing & Economic Development Committee on Aug. 6 that 70 people were currently in the Roadway emergency shelter, including seven families (eight adults and 18 children) and 44 individual adults. She also said an additional 33 adults were in other hotel placements outside Roadway.
The numbers were part of a routine homelessness and housing update presented to the committee. "We got a grant through OTDA to hire a senior case worker that…
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