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HRC vice chair outlines Safe Move Tulsa plan and local mental-health crisis response
Summary
Vice Chair Commissioner France briefed the Human Rights Commission on local homelessness estimates, a proposed Safe Move Tulsa plan to house 300 people, and recent crisis-response expansions including COPES and the Tulsa sobering/urgent recovery center.
Vice Chair Commissioner France used the August 18 meeting of the Tulsa Human Rights Commission to summarize recent local work on homelessness and mental-health crisis response and to flag a pending City Council vote on a program called Safe Move Tulsa.
France said the city estimates roughly 1,500 people experiencing homelessness in Tulsa — about 1,000 in shelters and 500 living on the street. The Safe Move Tulsa proposal discussed at City Council would aim to house 150 people who are unsheltered and 150 people currently in shelters, pay each household’s rent for one year, and provide help connecting participants with employment and addiction or recovery services.
France provided a preliminary funding outline discussed in council…
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