A public meeting will give neighborhood representatives and interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about and comment on critical aspects of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
The meeting will take place at on December 10, 2008 at 6pm in the small assembly room in the City/County Building.
According to TYP Director Jon Lawler, one major goal of this meeting, and the joint City Council/County Commission workshop on the following day (this meeting is also open to the public), is to start a process for defining the siting criteria by which permanent supportive housing would be located in various parts of the city and county to meet TYP objectives.
The other goal is to help define the guidelines by which developers of this housing will engage neighborhoods where such housing may be located. A good process for neighborhood engagement is critical to the success of the TYP’s efforts to develop necessary permanent supportive housing stock.
At each of these two meetings, Tim Klont from the Corporation for Supportive Housing will speak about what permanent supportive housing is, how effective it is, how it affects property values, the different models of development, how different communities site this type of housing, and other points of interest. After his presentation (20 – 25 minutes), Mr. Klont will answer questions.
The TYP is committed to a scattered-site approach to developing housing to end chronic homelessness. In order to reach its goal of creating 400 units of permanent supportive housing, the TYP will need to encourage construction and/or rehabilitation of perhaps a dozen or more apartment complexes scattered across the city and county.
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We would like to see a map of the proposed sites under consideration of the where the permanent supportive housing would be located in various parts of the city and county to meet TYP objectives before the meeting.
Ben Burks
Ben,
There is no such map. Yet. The meeting tonight is designed to begin a process for developing criteria by which such sites’ selection would be guided.
I don’t know, but it’s possible that City Council and County Commission will commission a task force to undertake this work, and that in the process of doing it, all of our present service-oriented housing would be mapped across the county. I’m not sure how to classify this kind of housing, but it would probably include halfway houses, emergency shelters, group homes for people with mental illness, permanent supportive housing, public housing, etc. This would give us a good idea of what parts of the community already have these kinds of resources in them, and would also show us parts of the community where they don’t presently exist.
The meeting tonight (Dec 11, 5pm, City County Building) is open to the public. I think it will also be broadcast on CTV.
Best,
Robert