Two Fresno shelters to shut down by end of year

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- More than 100 radical presently surviving successful shelters volition request to find a caller spot to enactment by the extremity of the twelvemonth owed to a deficiency of funding.

The Journey Home and Golden State Triage Center shelters successful cardinal and westbound cardinal Fresno volition adjacent by the extremity of the year.

Both were antecedently motels purchased and tally by the Fresno Housing Authority. The backing for that came from "Project Homekey" assistance wealth from the authorities during the pandemic. The wealth has present tally out.

"This is hard," said Raymond Rayos, who has lone been surviving astatine Journey Home for a week.

Before that, helium was surviving connected the streets.

"I had an flat but the rent went up. We were paying similar $2,000 and present it's going up higher. We couldn't spend it," said Rayos.

There are dozens of stories similar Raymond's. In fact, determination are 120 of them astatine Journey Home and Golden State Triage Center.

"This is tough, I mean this would not person been the perfect concern but we are truly optimistic that imperishable lodging for radical arsenic opposed to a impermanent shelter, is going to beryllium a amended semipermanent solution for these individuals and families," said Tiffany Townsend, Deputy Executive Director of the Fresno Housing Authority.

She says they're adjacent to reaching a woody to crook 1 of the shelters into imperishable housing.

Meanwhile, 120 radical volition request to find a spot to live, which the lodging authorization is assisting with.

But places similar the Fresno Mission are bracing for an influx of radical seeking structure implicit the adjacent twelvemonth to 18 months arsenic backing runs out. They're looking astatine options to grow adjacent more.

"The national money, the authorities wealth is gone. It's gone. We tin outcry astir it each we privation but astatine the extremity of the time if radical successful Fresno privation to truly alteration community, they person the powerfulness to supply much wealth than the authorities government, much wealth than the national government," said Matthew Dildine, CEO of the Fresno Mission.

Both shelters volition halt accepting caller residents connected July 31.

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