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Local advocates ask O'Fallon to underwrite winter sheltering as homeless services face rising demand
Summary
A continuum-of-care advocate told the council that homelessness and housing instability in the region are increasing and asked municipalities to help fund emergency motel sheltering for families this winter; advocates estimated about $77,000 would be needed to cover winter hotel stays through March and said O'Fallon residents accounted for roughly
A member of the regional continuum of care urged O'Fallon council members on Oct. 23 to help fund emergency winter sheltering and to join a broader municipal conversation about affordable and crisis housing.
"It takes an average in this community of nine months to successfully rehouse a family once they've become homeless," said Dottie Kastegar, a local advocate working with the continuum of care. She told the council the coordinated system had received 386 requests for assistance from O'Fallon residents since January; 328 of those…
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