Officials from The City of South Bend and St. Joseph County are teaming up on a homeless intake center and hire service coordinators.
There are plans to establish a joint homeless intake center and attempt to find funding for another permanent housing apartment development.
The South Bend Tribune reports that three candidates were interviewed last month for a new one-year contract position that would have a $75,000 budget. Mayor Mueller’s office says the city would also be willing to contribute $25,000 toward the hiring of a similar point person for the county, which is also looking into possible candidates.
The new intake center would either be built on the county-owned Portage Manor, or the Knights Inn Motel would be purchased and converted for that purpose.
Some of the construction would be paid for with federal money under the American Jobs Plan.
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When do we start making people accountable for themselves.
Define help !
Help them to lift their selves up not a new way of life of sitting on their tail ends and having someone else give them a check for doing nothing.
Make them work for the hand out hand up.
After working in public housing for 20
Years I’ll never forget what a young lady
Told me when I ask her what are your goals in life.
Her response was I’m going to have 3 kids like my mother and go on welfare . We live pretty good .
Larry’s comments ring so true for so many homeless Choices made early in life, no high school diploma, no work ethic Live by the poor adult examples they see around them, Drugs, alcohol making them unemployable. Do I fell sad and empathy for kids that grow up with this huge burden making it much more difficult for them ? Sure But if you do not have job and people skills you have a very hard life ahead of you.
Our social safety net has become a hammock.
It’s time to start arresting vagrants again. Better yet, put them on the first freight train to Commiefornia and let Newsome pay their way.
It would also help to reopen the mental institutions.