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Commissioners debate whether landlords or community partners should provide care coordination for supportive housing
Summary
The board discussed funding a Tenants to Homeowners position to provide on-site supportive housing coordination, heard competing views about best practice separation of landlord and care roles, and held the item for further review; some commissioners favored short-term funding while the commission pursues a systems-level solution.
Douglas County commissioners spent substantial time Tuesday debating how to staff supportive housing so that residents get care without landlords acting as direct case managers.
The request on the table was funding for a Tenants to Homeowners supportive-housing coordinator position intended to liaise between landlords, tenants and care providers for a set of recently built units. Commissioners and staff described the role as distinct from intensive case management: staff said it would perform landlord-oriented…
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