The Hope Center has opened its new transitional housing and veterans housing addition, which provides 72 beds for transitional housing, with 32 dedicated to homeless veterans. Jeff Crook, Chief Executive Officer of the Hope Center, said this facility will give clients the skills to remain housed once they move back into the community.
"Our shelter, that's constantly been overcrowded since we opened, has a little bit more space. It creates an incentive for the clients in our shelter to move into this transitional supportive housing to receive services, and in doing so, it frees up space in the shelter, which is desperately needed," Crook said. "So that's a bonus for our existing shelter, but it's also a bonus for those clients because they're going to receive additional services here that they wouldn't have received before."
Some of those services include job training, addiction recovery, and mental health assistance.
More than half of the $6.8 million project was funded through ARPA funds and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.