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$150,000 may fund homeless navigation center feasibility study
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Stanislaus County will look to find housing for 100 homeless individuals throughout the county, focusing on those who are 65 and older and/or have underlying medical conditions (FRANKIE TOVAR/The Journal).

Manteca’s elected leaders are being asked to spend $150,000 on a feasibility study and needs assessment as the precursor to possibly locating a homeless navigation center on the eastern portion of 8.04 acres at 662 South Main St.

The study will cover financial implications, assessing building space needs, and the needed homeless services. It will include workshops to obtain community input.

The council will consider funding for the study when they meet at 7 o’clock tonight via a Zoom meeting. The meeting will be livestreamed via the city’s website and shown on Comcast Cable 97.

After the council abandoned the Qualex site at 555 Industrial Park Drive last month as being too costly and too problematic for a homeless navigation center, they directed staff to pursue the 8.04 acres.

The city staff has already started work on the appraisal as well as an environmental site assessment that will identify any pollution issues.

Given the site is too large for simply a homeless navigation center the council also wants to pursue some form of partnership for affordable housing along South Main Street. They envision a sound wall separating the two uses. At the same time the affordable housing would further buffer the homeless navigation center from South Main Street and the residential neighborhood directly across the street.

Such a homeless center, if it is built, would be accessed from Carnegie Court off of Mellon Avenue within the Manteca Industrial Park.

 

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com