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Residents, advocates press Monroe County for low‑barrier housing and alternatives to repeated evictions
Summary
Speakers at a county work session urged preserving the Thompson property as interim shelter, exploring tiny homes and low‑barrier camping, and coordinating funding and planning across county, city and nonprofits; officials said legal, zoning and funding constraints will require multiagency work and cost estimates.
At a Monroe County work session, residents, advocates and nonprofit representatives called for permanent or interim alternatives to repeated clearings of the Thompson property, including low‑barrier campgrounds, tiny‑home communities and county‑owned bridge sites. Speakers argued that leaving the property available while scaling services would be less disruptive than repeated evictions.
Organizers and residents told county officials the Thompson property functions as an essential place where people who have been repeatedly cleared elsewhere can stay. One commenter urged the county not to sell the land and suggested selling instead to a nonprofit or holding the land in a programmatic way that would allow bridge housing. Another suggested the county could appropriate…
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