The Concord City Council approved the allocation of $5 million to six local organizations for the implementation of the strategies contained in the Homeless Strategic Plan that the Council adopted in February 2024.
Beginning this month, the City will distribute $5 million of one-time, non-recurring funding. These organizations will offer a combination of temporary housing and comprehensive support services to help individuals transition out of homelessness.
Additionally, they will deliver field-based services to people in their current sheltering locations, addressing essential needs such as medical care, substance abuse treatment, food and hygiene, and workforce development. The ultimate goal of implementing the strategies listed below is to support individuals with successfully exiting homelessness and achieving permanent housing.
- Caminar, Rapid Rehousing: $1,580,000
- GROW Concord, Mobile Resource Unit: $1,705,000
- Hope Solutions, Permanent Motel Supportive Housing: $760,000
- NAMI Contra Costa, Mobile Resource Unit: $200,000
- Northern California Family Center, Scattered Site Interim Housing: $25,000
- Veterans Accession House, Scattered Site Interim Housing: $730,000
In September, the City issued a request for proposals from organizations specializing in homeless response services. Seventeen organizations submitted proposals, and on Sept. 20, the ad hoc committee comprised of Councilmembers Dominic Aliano and Laura Nakamura conducted public interviews with each applicant.
The ad hoc committee then developed their funding recommendations based on key attributes, including community benefits, goals and objectives, partnership and funding sources, and organizational capacity.
Ad hoc committee relatives involved in this? Asking for a friend
How about using said money only on one way tickets to San Fran, LA or outside the guv’s mansion.
Will they give the money back if they fail ? ? ?
Does some unelected bureaucrat decide if goals were met ? ? ?
How many taxpayer dollars go to overhead cost of these organizations?
Welfare=Socialism and must go on forever. If they “fix” the problem…they put themselves out of business.
democrats need voters dependent upon government for their financial well being.
as employees or those receiving assistance.
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“We should measure welfare’s success
by how many people leave welfare,
not by how many are added.”
–Ronald Reagan
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Both His Imperial Majesty, Emperor newsom and biden harris regime have increased size of government.
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“Government does not solve problems;
it subsidizes them.”
–Ronald Reagan
5Mil totally wasted. Wont help at all.
And these agencies probably will not be able to account for it when it is gone, but the people who run these will have a new bus, boat or house.
its all to give people jobs and ad it to the jobs report and the entire country will add to this fictional help.A giant country wide scam.
Their response”we tried” or “its better than doing nothing” when they do nothing but it costs $5 million anyway.
17 organizations applied… 2 people decided on the 6 fastest/smoothest talkers.
In this decade, being in the “charitable” business of “helping” the homeless has become a business enterprise. If they “fix” homelessness…they put themselves out of business.
Just a thought!
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California has 7,470 social workers.”
“The poverty rate in Contra Costa County is 8.26%, which is lower than the national average of 12.5%”
“The Employment and Human Services Department is the second largest department in Contra Costa County with nearly 2000 [social] workers.”
The taxpayers pay for all of that…
and still… the City has to pump in more goody-two-shoes dollars ~~ to assuage their fee-fees.
and we’ll recycle it all again when the next bond measure kicks in to help pay off the last one….
Chartering a fleet of Greyhound busses would be cheaper.
“official” count of “unhoused” in June, 2024,
Number of homeless people:
Antioch
413
Richmond
388
Concord
173 ~~ $5,000,000.00 = $28,900.00 EACH Could buy them each a new car and a full tank!
Here’s a plan. Don’t give them free stuff and they will move on! Don’t make them comfortable make them work!
Wonderful. Let’s start a new Homelessness Industrial Complex in Concord. If every single penny is not accounted for and measured for success, you might as well just throw it out the car window while driving down Willow Pass.
Its all spent on lunches and bonuses.Go look at the size of the people at these organizations.
You will always get more of any behavior that you reward.
6 groups to feed the pigeons, easy to know what the results will be. They should be paid for performance, get X amount of people through supportive housing into permanent housing get X dollars. After a time period the one that did the most gets to be the sole vendor for the city.
If you’ve never seen a homeless guy fondle himself as you get in your car and watch you drive away, you have yet to visit our local CVS. Where piss and garbage and police vehicles are an integral part of the atmosphere.
What would the qualifications be for this asisstance?
Would the people that I see every day in the background be helped?
Would the people who mentally assault others be addressed?
I see every day some who just need a place to sleep, and some who are not mentally well. How will this grant differentiate between the different demographics of homelessness, and how will the money be allocated?
I am hoping that we can help people who have found themselves living on the streets; yet I also hope that the funding and programs go to those who are truly trying to get on their feet.
Why so they want someone to drive a rank thru city hall?they built it on the elevated lot for a reason i think…..
that should have said “tank” not rank
%0-3 will go where it supposed to and that will do nothing.Thats the money they spent on ink and white paper,and toilet paper.
So let’s see the “strategic plan”. Then let’s see see the deliverables and schedule (and how people will be held accountable).
If these don’t exist, then it’s just throwing more money down a rathole.
But it’s a government program so I’m repeating myself.
Mobile resource unit $1,705,000….sounds like one hell of an RV.
The Democrats have turned homelessness into a multi-billion dollar industry it’s all about making money it’s not about solving the problem of homelessness I know you’re shocked
I hate to be cynical, but let me guess:
They spent $10M to develop the strategic plan and are spending $5M to implement it.