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Michigan City workshop convenes service providers, police and nonprofits to coordinate homelessness response
Summary
City leaders, police and nonprofit providers met Dec. 11 in a Michigan City Common Council workshop to review service capacity, enforcement limits and funding options; officials said they will form a coordinating committee and pursue federal and local grant support.
Michigan City officials, law enforcement and local service providers met at a Dec. 11 Common Council workshop to map a coordinated response to homelessness, identify gaps in housing and mental-health services, and pursue funding and operational steps including a new action committee.
The meeting, led by a council host and Mayor Angie, drew representatives from the police department, Swanson Center PATH, Nest Community Shelter, Keys to Hope and other nonprofits. Mayor Angie said the city is assembling a committee of service providers and stakeholders to create an “action agenda” that will guide use of CDBG, ARPA and other funds and help develop outreach and housing-first strategies. “We—re putting together a committee to speak on that,” Mayor Angie said during the workshop.
Why it matters: providers at the meeting said Michigan City hosts more shelter capacity than neighboring jurisdictions, creating…
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