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Residents press Sullivan County to approve gateway housing grant amid concerns about homelessness
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Sullivan County Health and Human Services Committee and legislature to accept grant funding and move forward on a gateway housing project, arguing it would provide wraparound services for people experiencing homelessness and criticizing perceived delays.
Several residents used the meeting’s public-comment period to urge the county to proceed with a proposed gateway housing project and to accept associated grant funding.
Speakers described stable, wraparound housing as essential to address homelessness and emphasized that gateway housing would link residents to services (including behavioral health and employment supports). One speaker, identifying herself as a community organizer from Monticello, said that even if the project saves a small number of lives it is worth proceeding and warned that officials who delay action would bear moral responsibility if people die on the…
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