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Plans for developing additional transitional housing units
2:23:55
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Council Member Cabán inquires about MOCJ's plans to develop additional housing units. Deanna Logan provides information on their short-term plans and challenges.
- MOCJ hopes to bring additional beds online
- They currently have 800 beds operating
- Two sites were taken offline, and they are working to find replacements
- In the short term, they plan to develop at least two new facilities
- The new facilities would add approximately 200 beds
- Logan welcomes partnership to find more sites for expansion
Tiffany Cabán
2:23:55
And just to put a finer point on it, these are data points that we cannot even attempt to work on solving this problem without this information.
2:24:06
A follow-up question is, how many additional housing units do you plan to develop, and when do you anticipate that they'll open?
Deanna Logan
2:24:18
We are hopeful to have additional beds coming online.
2:24:26
Have 800 that are operating now.
2:24:28
There were two sites that we had to take offline and we are looking to work with partners to find How many do you plan to develop?
2:24:38
At least two in the short term and then we will be looking to see what we can do going forward.
2:24:44
We welcome the partnership to be able to find sites in order to be able to
Tiffany Cabán
2:24:49
expand the So two facilities with but what is that?
2:24:51
How many beds does that translate?
Deanna Logan
2:24:53
Approximately another 200 beds.
Tiffany Cabán
2:24:55
Okay.