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Details on the Bridge to Home program for housing mentally ill homeless individuals
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Council Member Marmorato inquires about the housing plans for the Bridge to Home program, which aims to house homeless individuals with mental health issues. Dr. Katz provides details on the program's implementation strategy.
- The program requires a single unit to efficiently provide services, rather than scattered site housing.
- H+H is looking to lease an entire hotel building that is not heavily used, to avoid construction and allow for a July start date.
- The housing will be off-site, not on hospital campuses, to maintain separation from medical facilities.
Kristy Marmorato
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Now I just wanted to move over to the bridge to home program.
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Now are you looking to acquire a building to house these individuals or are you looking to place them into separate different apartments all throughout the city?
Dr. Mitch Katz
0:44:23
As we would need it to be a single unit because it just wouldn't be efficient to provide the services scattered site.
0:44:30
Okay.
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Are you looking like a I mean, the ideal place, and we haven't yet found it, would be a hotel, not used single rooms, a common space for the services that didn't require construction.
0:44:43
We don't want the idea is to start this program in July when the budget starts, so I I can't have construction.
0:44:51
And I I would not buy a building.
0:44:54
Okay.
0:44:55
So the idea is to find a hotel that is not being heavily used and that where they're willing to do, you know, a lease for the entire building.
Kristy Marmorato
0:45:07
But it will be off-site, not on the campuses and
Dr. Mitch Katz
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Not on the campus.
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No.
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No.
Kristy Marmorato
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Okay.