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Local providers, residents debate shelter and senior-supportive housing at council meeting
Summary
At the Aug. 18 Kankakee City Council meeting, a senior housing provider described services and urged council visits while a resident letter opposed a proposed overnight homeless shelter at a neighborhood site; both items came during public comment.
Penny Greenlee, community outreach director for High Point of Kankakee, asked the City Council on Aug. 18 to visit her facility and consider it as part of local solutions for senior homelessness.
Greenlee said High Point operates a supportive living facility that accepts Medicaid, provides three meals a day, on-staff nursing and a memory-care unit opened in March. “We accept Medicaid. We will help them apply. We will help them get into the building,” Greenlee told the council during public comment. She described outreach to seniors who are isolated or homeless and asked council members to tour the building so they could speak…
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