Point-In-Time Count<\/a> were from the beaches.<\/p>\n“Many of us would contend the numbers have always been high,” said Glasser. “They’re not going down.”<\/p>\n
Glasser’s request for each of the beaches is to put together a joint resolution to ask for more homelessness resources to be shared with the beaches.<\/p>\n
“We pay our property taxes for county services,” said Glasser. “There are at least four programs that we don’t get anything back from Jacksonville on. JFRD PATH program, JSO co-responder program, Homeward Bound program and the blight abatement program.”<\/p>\n
First Coast News reached out to a City of Jacksonville spokesperson, who provided the following statement in response to Glasser’s request:<\/p>\n
“The City of Jacksonville appreciates the collaborative relationship that we have with the Beach municipalities on homeless outreach. Through Mission House Jax Beach, we are currently funding a case manager and a \u201chomeward bound\u201d program that provides transportation for individuals who want to return to their previous home and family.<\/p>\n
The City has also funded an expansion of non-profit shelter beds, which are available for Beach communities, and the JFRD PATH outreach team and blight removal team that covers the entirety of Duval County. Citizens can report public camping and homeless encampments at myjax.custhelp.com or by calling 630-CITY.<\/p>\n
We encourage the Beaches Homelessness Coalition to work with the City\u2019s Housing Division to apply for federal homelessness funding, an opportunity that has been previously shared. Additionally, they can present any proposals to the Homelessness Initiatives Commission to be eligible for city funding.<\/p>\n
Finally, there is no official data that suggests 30-35% of homeless individuals reside at the Beaches. This is a county-wide challenge.”<\/p>\n
The spokesperson also mentioned a consultant is currently reviewing the interlocal agreement between the beaches and Jacksonville to ensure all resources, not just ones to do with homelessness, are being distributed fairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellen Glasser went to city council and commission meetings in Atlantic, Neptune and Jacksonville Beaches to push for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-398883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}