NEOCH is co-administrator of the website, Housingcleveland.org along with 211/First Call for Help. This affordable housing website contains around 2,000 available units. Last week we reached a milestone with over 1 million searches having been conducted over the last year. There were over 140,000 unique users who conducted these searches.
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Both Philadelphia and New York City mayors have announced plans to restict access to food for hungry residents. The Philadelphia Mayor announced in mid March that he was going to try to restrict distribution of food in parks. New York City officials are restricting access to donated food to the shelters. Both these efforts will fail, and we know in Cleveland the pitfalls of trying to bring some order to the chaotic world of food distribution.
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Yesterday, WCPN and the morning show, the Sound of Ideas, featured a discussion about homelessness or more specifically a look at Dan Kerr's book Derelict Paradise which traces the history of homelessness in Cleveland. We had a Street Voices speaker, Sheri West on who successfully transitioned from shelter back into housing in 2008 to 2009. An interview with Ms. West will be in the next Street Chronicle. I was also able to participate. Jeff Kaiser Executive Director of Haven of Rest in Akron participated by telephone.
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The cuts at the state and federal level have taken a heavy toll on our community locally with the announcement today of the closing of Bridgeways mental health facility. Without an ability to raise additional revenue at the state or federal level, there is extreme pressure on the local County and City to do more with less. Today it was announced that one our critical human service agencies is going out of business by April 30, 2012.
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