Whether encamped on the northern edge of Superior Avenue downtown or under a highway overpass, roughly 150 Clevelanders spend a great bulk of their days and nights outside, either refusing to seek shelter or mentally unprepared for the pressures of communal living.
It's this population of 150 that, the city argued in Monday's marathon Committee of the Whole meeting, need outside experts to decide how to best place them in housing. And do it sooner than later.
Solving Cleveland's homeless issue, as local nonprofits and advocates have shown in the past, is a Rubik's Cube, leaning on a precise orchestration of on-the-street outreach coordinators, landlords or hotel owners, along with sizable funds at the city and county level to carry out a long pathway to residency.
According to data from the Mayor's Office, roughly 10 percent of the homeless in Cuyahoga County are unsheltered, a stat that's doubled since 2020. Experts tend to attribute this fact to an increasing demand for and lack of affordable housing around the city, along with landlords skeptical of Section 8 vouchers, or housing the formerly unsheltered in the first place.
Danielle Cosgrove, the director for the Cleveland Mediation Center, which leans heavily on family connections to take in the unhoused, believes that the $2 million upfront cost would suffice as a usable model in the future.
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