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Committee forwards ordinance to create cooperative living loan fund to expand communal housing for people with chronic mental illness
Summary
An ordinance to establish a Cooperative Living Opportunities for Mental Health Loan Fund — including a $5 million placeholder from a housing bond — was introduced and recommended to the full Board after presentations from MOHCD and DPH partners and supportive public testimony from behavioral health providers.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee reviewed an ordinance to create a Cooperative Living Opportunities for Mental Health Loan Fund designed to finance acquisition of residential properties to operate as scattered-site communal homes for people with chronic mental illness and substance use disorders.
"The legislation will enable nonprofit organizations to acquire apartments and single-family homes to create scattered site non-institutional facilitated communal households in which four or five people with chronic mental illness can share a home assisted with individual and household case management services that…
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