As the COVID emergency dwindles, city officials are looking to spend federal money on short-term housing for people experiencing homelessness.
Chad Respondek moves in furnishings to a new permanent supporting housing unit complex for individuals experiencing homelessness.San Antonio has more than $29 million left of a $50 million federally-funded account set aside for coronavirus pandemic-related emergencies. As the threat of COVID dwindles, city officials are now looking to spend that money on short-term housing for people experiencing homelessness as well as preparing for more broad emergencies in the future.
During a Wednesday briefing about how the city allocated its American Rescue Plan Act funds, most council members were largely receptive to city staff’s recommended uses of the remaining ARPA funding: nearly $16 million for two former motels to serve as shelters for chronically homeless individuals and nearly $14 million on “emergency preparedness” to include shoring up supplies and equipment for times of need.By signing up, you agree to receive messages from the San Antonio Report.
Over the last 18 months, SAMMinitries has served about 280 people at the 45-bed motel, said Melody Woosley, director of the city’s Department of Human Services.“The chronically homeless population is the toughest group” to get to accept services, Woosley said. “Many of them do go back to the street the first time, maybe the second time — and then maybe the third time it sticks.”
The new funding would extend the Days Inn lease for another two years and allow the city to lease another property with about 80-90 beds. That property has yet to be identified. That would allow the two low-barrier shorter-term shelters to serve about 600 people over the next two years, while
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