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Community‑services staff outline homelessness assistance: mobile showers, trust fund and relocation help
Summary
The community services coordinator reported on local homelessness response: a weekly mobile shower program with 350 showers since July, a donor‑funded 'unhoused trust' used for small emergency needs, and coordination to move vulnerable people to shelters and housing.
Teresa Cowan, Community Services coordinator, reported to the council on the city's homelessness assistance work, describing volunteer‑run services, a donor trust fund and recent housing outcomes for vulnerable residents.
Cowan said the city's mobile shower program operates every Wednesday; since July volunteers have provided about 350 showers and recorded roughly 600 volunteer hours (Cowan estimated a volunteer‑hour dollar value of about $20,000). The service has closed only twice in nine months for extreme weather.
Cowan described the city's "unhoused trust," a donor fund established by a…
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