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Administration outlines homelessness-and-health strategy, $5 million emergency rental assistance and scatter-site shelter plan
Summary
Special assistants to the mayor and the health department director briefed the Assembly committee on an administration strategy favoring a scatter-site, service-rich shelter model, expanded behavioral-health linkages, $5 million in emergency rental assistance and near-term projects including micro units and crisis stabilization planning.
Farina Brown, special assistant to the mayor, and Thea Agnewbembe, special assistant to the mayor, described the administration’s homelessness-and-health strategy and near-term actions during a presentation to the Assembly Housing and Homelessness Committee.
Brown said the administration has moved from a single, large congregate shelter model toward a smaller scatter-site approach that pairs low-barrier shelter with case management and behavioral-health linkage. "We are intentionally moving away from a reliance on a single mass shelter model," Brown said, adding the strategy aims to serve a baseline of about 200 individuals with winter surge capacity up to 400.
Why this matters: the administration announced $5,000,000 in emergency rental assistance intended to increase exits to permanent housing and to stem inflow to literal homelessness, and it described investments in case management and behavioral-health access intended to reduce…
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