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Residents and Southside leaders urge Hays County to fund housing‑stability program before ARPA money runs out
Summary
Speakers from Southside Community Center told the court their housing‑stability program — credited with preventing homelessness — will lose ARPA funding in April; they requested the county add an item and find modest local support (staff said Southside currently receives $25,000/year).
Multiple speakers representing the Southside Community Center asked Hays County's Commissioner's Court to add county funding to sustain a housing‑stability program that administrators say prevents homelessness. Southside leaders told the court the center began as a Mexican social center and now serves residents across Hays County.
Deborah Giles Webster, secretary of Southside's board, said the program was created in response to rising housing affordability and homelessness and that current ARPA funding…
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