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Harford Community Action Agency tells council freezing-weather plan pivot cut motel access and left families without shelter options
Summary
Harford Community Action Agency officials told the council that a budgetary and operational pivot removed motel vouchers and moved emergency sheltering to a congregate senior-center site that serves about 30 single adults, leaving families with children largely without temporary motel placements; agency representatives urged increased bed capacity and funding.
Pamela "PJ" Craig and colleagues from the Harford Community Action Agency (HCAA) briefed the Harford County Council on the county's freezing-weather plan and the limits of the local homelessness response. Craig said the presentation was intended to provide "correction through clarity" and data to explain recent operational changes.
"Tonight is not about optics. It's about the truth," Craig said, describing HCAA as a federally and state-funded community action agency that manages emergency assistance, food, utility support and homelessness referrals. She and senior director Brian Wainwright told the council their referral network includes Anna's House (four emergency family rooms, four additional transitional rooms for domestic-violence survivors), Harford Family House (34 beds for single adults), and other providers, but that capacity for families…
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