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Roadway shelter staff say 20 of 25 families have moved to permanent housing, county update shows
Summary
Tompkins County officials updated the Housing and Economic Development Committee that the Roadway family shelter is serving about 54 people and staff report 20 of 25 families served since the shelter opened have secured permanent housing.
At the Sept. 3 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee, Family Housing Coordinator Barb Kazian told legislators that since the Roadway shelter opened the county has served 25 families and “20 out of 25 of them have secured permanent housing.”
The update said Roadway currently houses 41 adults and five families (13 people), for a total of 54 people at the property, with 28 people placed in other motels within the county (down from 31 at the previous meeting) and one person placed out of county (down from two). Two additional families were described as scheduled to “lease up in the next two weeks.”
The statement matters because county staff described Roadway as a centralized…
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