Committee hears limits on temporary housing capacity; hotels must resolve code issues before placements resume
Committee members were told the county is near capacity for in-county temporary housing and that two hotels previously used for placements remain unavailable pending correction of code violations; staff said they will not place people there until violations are fixed and one operator, Dunker Hospitality, was 'close' to approval.
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Committee members pressed county staff on the capacity and placement options for temporary housing during the September Human Services Committee meeting. Diane Anderson and Charlene Johnson said the county currently has only a small number of households housed outside Chautauqua County and that two hotels the county had used previously remain offline because of code violations.
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