Thursday, January 27, 2005
Head-bashing continues
More money from the feds for the homeless problem!
A new Berkeley housing and healthcare program got a $1.4 million jump-start Tuesday when nearly $8 million in federal funding for homeless services was allotted to Berkeley agencies.
The Comprehensive Approach to Chronic Homelessness Project will provide rental subsidies, healthcare, employment services and other support to 21 people in the county. About half of those people will be from Berkeley.
That's over $65,000 each. I wonder how the pick the lucky homeless dudes.
Anyway, most of the rest of the story is explanations for how big Berkeley's homeless problem is. Paraphrased:
"Yeah, we seem to have a lot of homeless folk around these parts." (hands out free services to homeless folk) "We try to get them off the streets, but for some reason, they just keep coming." (hands out more free services to homeless folk) "I think the causal problem is that there's too many crazy people in Berkeley. That's definitely causal, not consequential."
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