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Councilors discuss repurposing city-owned vacant buildings to add homeless shelters; motion kept for future meetings
Summary
Councilor Louie Giuffre proposed converting city-owned vacant buildings into homeless shelters and launching an awareness campaign. The director of health and human services and finance director described existing shelter options and funding considerations; councilors agreed to keep the proposal on future agendas rather than voting immediately.
At the April 3 Student Government Day city council session, Councilor Louie Giuffre proposed a motion to plan, develop and build additional homeless shelters by repurposing abandoned city-owned buildings and to launch a public-awareness campaign about homelessness in Peabody.
The council heard background from the director of health and human services, who said Peabody currently tracks roughly a dozen people sleeping outdoors and that several nearby shelter…
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