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MyspaceThe Santa Barbara City Council unanimously endorsed the concept of consolidating the three main organizations that focus on homeless issues in the county Tuesday, September 13, giving momentum to a process that will dramatically change the way homeless policies are decided and implemented here.
Observing the proceeding, it was almost as if the seven councilmembers were seeing eye-to-eye on a homeless issue. Almost. In reality, what they were agreeing on is a mere basic framework of an organization and the idea that greater coordination of homeless services and policies will serve the city’s goal of moving homeless people off the streets.
The finer points of merging Bringing Our Community Home (BOCH), Common Ground S.B., and the three regional Homeless Advisory Committees into one big organization are going to be worked out later in the year. To read more, go to homelessinsb.org/
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This is a comment on the column to the left of this story in HomelessinSB, by Denise Gersh. She asks for comments but there is no way there to make comments. Mine are that I respect her for putting her story out there for strangers, such as I, to understand a bit better how things can unravel so easily and completely. And I admire her for hanging in, struggling — this is a very hard town to survive in, perhaps every place now is. And I wish her the best of luck and all good thoughts. I have no idea who she is, but her story is touching and by writing as she did she brought to me and I am sure to others an understanding of how it's so easy to keep sliding once the slide begins. I do hope things go better for the writer and believe that they will.
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September 14, 2011 at 10:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)