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Residents urge more treatment, stricter enforcement in Shelton public comments on homelessness
Summary
At the July 1 Shelton City Council meeting, residents urged the council to prioritize addiction and mental‑health treatment over long‑term housing placements and to enforce local ordinances; speakers cited surveys and national research to argue current approaches lead to chronic homelessness and higher taxpayer costs.
Residents pressed the Shelton City Council on July 1, 2025, to shift more local resources toward addiction and mental‑health treatment and to enforce existing ordinances to address visible homelessness in town.
A resident presenting a three‑part series called “The cost of homelessness” said current “housing first” practices leave some people chronically homeless because treatment needs go unmet. “Instead, public resources are spent on expensive long term public housing projects, where the individual continues to suffer from their addiction and mental health issues due to the lack of the treatment options they need,” the resident said.
The resident cited research they attributed to “Dr. Robert Marmon” and to a University of California survey, saying those studies found high…
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