City plans new emergency homeless shelter, but without much community input.
A Friday announcement that the city of Austin plans to convert a city-owned warehouse in Southeast Austin into a temporary shelter for 300 people experiencing homelessness was met with mixed reaction from people involved in the city’s Homeless Response System.
The memo also indicates that the city intends to create additional shelter space by converting the single-room “bridge shelter” locations located in North and South Austin into double-occupancy rooms. This could add space for another 130 people across both bridge shelter locations. The bridge shelters came online in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a way of providing safe shelter to medically vulnerable people living on the streets.
City officials are expected to release a Request for Proposal soon seeking a nonprofit partner to operate the. The contract would need to be approved by City Council, and it would be funded through $9.142 million of “unencumbered homelessness funds” from the American Rescue Plan Act investment plan, the roughly $188 million in relief funds the city received from the federal government during 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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