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Residents urge action on homelessness as county mental-health board offers partnership and opioid-settlement guidance
Summary
Public commenters asked the commission for more services and visible enforcement; Macomb County Commissioner Antoinette Wallace said the mental health board can partner and highlighted opioid-settlement dollars available to local governments; city staff clarified Mount Clemens had opted in to the settlement.
During two public-comment periods, several residents urged the Mount Clemens City Commission to act on homelessness and improve transparency and services for vulnerable residents. County and nonprofit officials offered partnership and funding suggestions.
Summer Paris Shafi said she would like the city to consider a supervised, well-managed tent community for people experiencing homelessness and outlined rules she would impose for safety and order. "I'd make sure it'd be clean, and God loves all of us," she said, describing a camp model with spacing, no drugs, no alcohol and…
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