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Task force offers 14 recommendations to address homelessness; shelter consolidation and funding top priorities
Summary
The Northwest Michigan Coalition to End Homelessness presented a yearlong task-force effort that produced 14 recommendations; the leadership team prioritized a funding plan and a potential consolidation of emergency shelter operations (proposal includes a 165-bed option at Keystone Road) and will deliver a strategic direction in February.
The homelessness task force presented its yearlong findings to the Grand Traverse County Board, delivering 14 recommendations across safety-net services, emergency shelter and housing solutions and outlining next steps toward implementation.
"We decided, okay, a task force to really nail down a strategic direction to address and end homelessness is needed in our community," Ashley Halliday Schmitt, director of the Northwest Michigan Coalition to End Homelessness, told the board. She said the task force completed more than 40 meetings, held listening sessions with people with…
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