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Council liaison warns city–county partnership strained as shelter‑to‑housing exits decline
Summary
Councilor Zimmerman, the city’s SOC liaison, told the July 8 Homelessness and Housing Committee that exits from shelters to housing have declined and that city–county deliberations on shelter strategy have been strained.
Councilor Zimmerman, the city’s liaison to the Homelessness Response System Steering and Oversight Committee (SOC), told the Homelessness and Housing Committee on July 8 that he is concerned about declining exits from shelters into housing and friction between city and county partners.
“Last year, when we inked the IGA … part of that agreement was a thousand shelter bed capacity,” Zimmerman said, adding that county partners have reduced the shelter target to 850 beds and may reduce it further. Zimmerman described a pattern in which ideas raised in SOC meetings—such as…
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