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Mayor Thompson presents provider-developed housing action plan, urges more outreach and case management
Summary
Mayor Carrie Thompson and local providers outlined a 10-point housing action plan focused on street homelessness, emphasizing more street outreach and case management, a short-term moratorium on out-of-region sheltering with reunification services, and targets to reduce unsheltered homelessness 50% by 2027 and 70% by 2030.
Mayor Carrie Thompson on Wednesday told the Bloomington Common Council that an emergency housing action plan developed by local shelter and outreach providers lays out immediate steps to address a sharp rise in street homelessness in the Monroe County region.
The plan, which Heading Home convened and released publicly the day before the meeting, contains 10 recommendations. At the council meeting Thompson said the priorities include expanding coordinated street outreach and case management, strengthening diversion and prevention services for people at risk of eviction, increasing subsidized rental units (with a stated emphasis on units affordable at under $500 a month), bolstering security and services for permanent supportive housing, adding approximately 10 medical respite beds and evaluating the need for additional shelter capacity.
"Housing is medicine," Thompson said in summarizing the plan. She…
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