The Concord City Council last week approved the release of a request for proposals (RFP) seeking qualified organizations to implement the strategies contained in its Homeless Strategic Plan.
The City will distribute $5 million of one-time, non-recurring funding to support strategy implementation. Per Council direction, $550,000 of the $5 million is reserved to support the Permanent Supportive Motel Housing Strategy. The remaining $4.45 million will be allocated among the remaining strategies. Most of these funds are expected to be used for direct services for the unhoused community with a portion for oversight and administration.
Recent Point-in-Time count figures by Contra Costa County showed that Concord’s homeless population declined by 28% over the prior year. The City continued this progress by adopting a Homeless Strategic Plan in February 2024.
The Plan consists of seven core strategies:
- Creating a Mobile Resource Unit
- Investing in Rapid Rehousing
- Development of Scattered Site Interim Housing
- Development of Scattered Site Tiny Homes
- Development of Centralized Tiny Homes
- Securing Interim Motel Housing
- Securing Permanent Supportive Motel Housing
All strategies prioritize addressing the immediate needs of those living unsheltered by focusing on connection to services and expanding housing options with support services.
Proposals are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13. Organizations interested in learning more are welcome to participate in an optional virtual workshop on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
The Council intends to award the grant money to successful proposals in fall 2024.
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This strategic plan list sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook
Just say where your spending the money for gods sake
If there are so many vacant offices like I’ve been told in SF, take them there. Use a chuck of money and convert a couple of wash rooms to a working bathroom. There must be hundreds of offices with a door that can locked. Give SF the 5 mil and load up the buses .
@Chris
San Francisco doesn’t want them. Apparently, they’re already bussing/flying them out of SF to various locations, with Humboldt County being one of them.
Sounds like city council is going for a temporary fix, out of sight, problem solved.
After all media coverage can be so embarrassing.
$5 million and NO mention of substance abuse or mental health is at best naive.
Wild guess, staff copied what other cities are trying and council rubber stamped their “PLAN“.
Did city ever consider moving recycling centers ? ? ? ? ?
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“Development of Scattered Site Interim Housing
Development of Scattered Site Tiny Homes”
Should do wonders for real estate values.
“If you want to understand any problem in America,
you need to look at who profits from that problem,
not at who suffers from that problem.”
–Dr. Amos Wilson
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“The best minds are not in government. If any were,
business would steal them away.”
— Ronald Reagan
Jail is an option. Vagrancy laws.
I hope grow concord gets a piece of the pie. The ladies from the organization feed the homeless at local parks. In addition, they provide homeless with shower and laundry services. It is a plus that they have got some backing edi birsan. Let’s support edi and grow concord!
No more handouts for the vagrant criminals.
If you as a private citizen want to hand out stuff, provide showers, whatever, YOU can do it. But I am tired of my taxes going to criminals when I see veterans and seniors who are going without.
Send then and Paul to DC where they belong.