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Councilors report slight uptick in homelessness, call for more services and caution on state tax cuts
Summary
Several councilors reported preliminary point-in-time data suggesting a small rise in homelessness and urged more services and care in responding to proposed state tax reductions that could reduce local funding for services.
Councilors at the Feb. 4 Casper City Council meeting reported preliminary findings from local homeless-coalition discussions and urged continued coordination to expand services amid limited per-capita funding from federal sources.
Councilor Bond said the coalition’s early data “preliminarily ... seemed to indicate that there was a slight uptick in the number of homeless individuals homeless or unstably housed individuals in Casper.” Bond described strong local collaboration among service…
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