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Mayor outlines homelessness, housing and overdose-response updates; city reports housing gains and ROAR progress
Summary
During opening remarks the mayor reviewed 2024 year-end statistics on homelessness and housing, described programs to house veterans and said the city's rapid overdose assessment and response team (ROAR) helped reduce overdoses and overdose fatalities compared with 2023.
The Mayor of Manchester opened the meeting with a summary of city efforts on homelessness, housing development and overdose response, and presented year-end statistics intended to show progress on those fronts.
The mayor said the city's strategy is to make homelessness "rare, brief, and one-time," combining enforcement of ordinances, service connections and building more affordable housing. He listed a set of initiatives launched during the prior year and reported several year-end metrics collected by city staff.
On enforcement and outreach, the mayor said the city implemented a camping ban during the summer and transferred funds to the Manchester Police Department for increased patrols of identified hot spots; between July 12 and the end of the year he said police made 130 arrests and issued 489 citations in…
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