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Community Shelter Board asks Columbus for $14.3 million to stabilize shelter system
Summary
The Community Shelter Board asked Columbus City Council’s housing committee for $14.3 million to preserve core shelter operations and fund outreach, winter warming centers and diversion programs; council members pressed CSB and the administration on priorities, provider impacts and how available bond and federal funds interact with operating shortfalls.
Shannon Isom, president and CEO of the Community Shelter Board, told the council’s housing, homelessness and building committee that the board is seeking $14,300,000 from the city for 2026 to both stabilize emergency shelter operations and invest in programs intended to reduce unsheltered homelessness.
Isom distinguished core system operations — emergency shelter, rapid rehousing, direct client assistance and day-to-day crisis response — from what she called transformational investments that shorten homelessness episodes and prevent shelter entry. She listed five priority enhancements in that second bucket: expanded street…
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