http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5221888-181/first-tenants-of-santa-rosa?artslide=0
Excerpt:
Sonoma County’s $2 million idea to turn a motel on a run-down strip of Santa Rosa Avenue into permanent housing for homeless people is now a reality.
The new tenants — 60 homeless veterans and 44 chronically homeless people — are beginning to move into their new digs at The Palms starting this week, said Jennielynn Holmes, director of shelter and housing for Catholic Charities, which is spearheading the south Santa Rosa project.
"It’s only a drop in the bucket compared to what we need, but I really believe this model could transform how we house homeless people in our community,” Holmes said.
I don't know... It sounds like a Sonoma County version of the Serenity Inn to me. Hope very much I am wrong.
ReplyDeleteMOLA, that is what came to mind. I think they had the idea before Serenity Inn.
ReplyDeleteAs I wrote in the comments to the PD article and elsewhere, I have to wonder how the neighbors will end up feeling about this? The same things that go on in the Devil's Playground are likely to follow these folks wherever they go. Do you want them living next door to you with all the crime and accumulation of trash?
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