New housing plan for Bloomington’s ‘street homeless’ adds case managers, effort to stem inflow

Kerry Thomson, Mary Morgan, Forest Gilmore, Dana Jones, Melissa Burgess, Emily Pike, Carrie Stillions, Heading Home of South Central Indiana, Beacon, New Hope for Families, Wheeler Mission, HealthNet, Centerstone, Middle Way House, South Central Housing Network, Monroe County, Bloomington, Bloomington City Hall, Indiana, The B Square, Lilly Endowment, Heading Homing Housing Action Plan, PIT count, Monroe County government, Bloomington city council, Forest Gilmore, Kerry Thomson, street homeless, unsheltered homeless, sheltered homeless, housing action plan, homelessness prevention, housing units, reunification services, emergency shelters, case managers, street outreach, medical respite beds, permanent supportive housing, criminal justice system restructuring, affordable housing, rental units.

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2024 count: Doubling of ‘street homelessness’ in Monroe County’s region compared to 2023

Kerry Thomson, Bloomington, Monroe County, Region 10, Greene County, Lawrence County, Martin County, Morgan County, Owen County, Indiana, IHCDA, PIT count, HUD, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Heading Home of South Central Indiana, HAND, American Rescue Plan Act, ARPA, City Council, Isabel Piedmont-Smith, St. Thomas Lutheran Church, CIB, capital improvement board, PIT count, unsheltered homeless, street homeless, sheltered homeless, homelessness, public policy, encampments, Rail Trail, Country Club Drive, Gordon Pike, appropriation ordinance, funding, service provider recommendations, temporary housing options, safe parking area, designated camping area, Single-Room Occupancy, SRO, departmental budget hearings, state of the city address, traveling town hall, consensus building activity, CBA, short term homelessness solutions, long term homelessness solutions.

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