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Residents urge council to prioritize shelter services in CDBG/HOME funding during packed public hearing
Summary
At a public hearing on CDBG and HOME funds, multiple residents, service providers and people with lived experience urged the city to prioritize emergency shelter, domestic violence housing improvements and targeted services rather than typical contractors. Speakers described gaps in shelter capacity, barriers for people with disabilities and parole‑linked housing pressures.
The city opened a public hearing for proposed Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME fund priorities and heard more than an hour of comments from residents, service providers and people with lived experience.
Melissa Jacobs, director of Blue RC Horizons, told the council that domestic violence shelter services qualify as housing‑stability work under HUD rules and urged the city to prioritize facility upgrades that would allow the agency to return to a centralized shelter model with ADA‑accessible showers. "Domestic violence is one of the leading causes of…
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