The CEO of Changing Homelessness said the extra money could get hundreds of people off the streets every year.
– Jacksonville City council members are looking to take the first steps toward dedicating consistent funding to address homelessness in Jacksonville.said the extra money could get hundreds of people off the streets every year.
According to Changing Homelessness, the number of people who are experiencing homelessness in northeast Florida has dropped in recent years, but hundreds of people still live on the streets. “We need some baseline of funding to know that if we start a program in October, we can still pay those people next October,” Gilman said. “If we have put people into housing...if we have guaranteed their rents for a certain amount of time, we can still pay those rents...that there is a more continued funding.”
Miami-Dade County has special permission from the state legislature to levy that tax locally, and City Councilmembers Peluso and Boylan want Jacksonville to have that opportunity, too.
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