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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 3, 2020, 12:46 AM Sep 2020

Tulsa will use $1.5 million in CARES Act funds for homeless response

The City Council on Wednesday approved the allocation of $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding, which includes $1.5 million to shelter and serve people without homes.

The $1.5 million will allow two existing programs to continue operating and a third to reopen after its funding ran out.

The three programs are the “quarantine hotel,” operated by City Lights Foundation; the temporary drop-in center and shelter at the old Tulsa County Juvenile Justice Center; and a street outreach program operated by A Way Home for Tulsa.

The 68-room quarantine hotel, the location of which has not been revealed, was opened about three months ago in response to the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It serves homeless people who have tested positive for the virus, those who are symptomatic and awaiting test results, and those most vulnerable to contracting the disease who need to be isolated.

Read more: https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/government-and-politics/tulsa-will-use-1-5-million-in-cares-act-funds-for-homeless-response/article_201a7ff2-ed3d-11ea-8034-d7413eedec26.html

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Tulsa will use $1.5 million in CARES Act funds for homeless response (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
Good. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #1

PoindexterOglethorpe

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Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:21 AM
Sep 2020

It's hard enough to deal with things right now even with home security.

I have done volunteer work in my local homeless shelter, so I have some faint clue as to what it is like to be homeless. But only a faint clue. Even though I've been relatively poor at various times in my life, I've never been close to homelessness. I am enormously lucky, probably far more than I realize.

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