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Residents press Anderson council for reliable warming centers and transparency on homelessness funds
Summary
Public commenters at the Anderson City Council meeting urged better oversight of homelessness services and ARPA spending, recounted local deaths and near-fatal exposures, and proposed a neutral warming center model and nonprofit organizing to fill service gaps.
Two public commenters asked the council to address gaps in overnight warming services, oversight of homelessness programs and the use of federal ARPA funds.
Nicole Kapushinski recounted multiple instances she said showed failures in the city’s overnight-warming arrangements, saying the warming center “wasn’t open” when a person died in December and arguing that responsibility…
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