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Shelter Committee urges campaign for thousands of supportive homes; Metro Legal warns council cannot solicit donations
Summary
A shelter-committee letter presented by volunteer Jonathan Rizzo asked the council to organize a campaign to create 2,500 permanent supportive-housing units (and later 10,000). Metro Legal advised that the council, as part of Metro, lacks authority to solicit charitable contributions directly and suggested coordinating with charitable organizations or the housing division.
Jonathan Rizzo, a Madison small-business owner and shelter-committee volunteer, presented a formal letter asking the Homelessness Planning Council to "organize a campaign to raise sufficient funding to create and preserve a minimum of 2,500 units of permanent supportive housing" and later to pursue 10,000 units to address the Section 8 waiting list. "We ask the HPC to organize a campaign to raise sufficient funding, to create and preserve a minimum of 2,500 units of permanent supportive housing," Rizzo read to the council.
During the ensuing discussion Metro Legal cautioned that the council does not have authority to solicit…
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