Peoria homeless advocates try to empty under-the-bridge camp to move residents into warm housing
PEORIA — The effort to move people out of a homeless enclave under the Murray Baker Bridge and into warm, semi-permanent housing is "exciting" and something that hasn't been seen before here in the Peoria area.
That's the word from Kate Green, the head of the Home for All Continuum of Care, which is the clearinghouse agency for groups that help those who live on the street or in the area's shelters.
By the end of the the day Monday, more than a dozen of the 20 or so people who made the encampment their home had been moved to an area hotel which had agreed to accept the camp denizens. There are a handful of people left at the settlement who will likely be moved within a day.
Green didn't give the name of the hotel, but said they had agreed to partner with the Continuum and that she hoped the contract would continue until all the camp dwellers were placed in permanent housing.
Read more: https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/2020/12/28/peoria-area-groups-move-homeless-under-highway-bridge-hotel/4065949001/
(Peoria Journal Star)
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