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.
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.
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….