{"id":46689,"date":"2025-11-14T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:21:06","slug":"despite-a-large-budget-gap-tallahassees-kearney-center-aims-to-increase-the-number-of-transitional-homes-for-the-formerly-unhoused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46689\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite a large budget gap, Tallahassee&#8217;s Kearney Center aims to increase the number of transitional homes for the formerly unhoused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee needs more affordable housing\u2014specifically for people facing homelessness. That\u2019s why Tallahassee&#8217;s shelter for the unhoused, the Kearny Center, held a fundraiser at The Dwellings the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Kearney, who established the emergency shelter in 2015, said he hopes to expand The Dwellings\u2019 capacity for transitional housing next year. It\u2019s already got 130 tiny homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to build 205 new affordable units, 2- and 3-bedroom units, right here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Sue Semrau, the storied former women\u2019s basketball coach at Florida State University, is helping to champion the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of you know that there\u2019s been a lot of budget cuts, government budget cuts, federal budget cuts, and that has impacted the Kearney Center. Almost a third of their budget has been cut \u2013 $1.3 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonya Wilson, the executive director of the Kearney Center, said the shelter\u2019s mission isn\u2019t a matter of giving people handouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to assist individuals into becoming independent again. We\u2019re not about enabling people. We\u2019re about empowering them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shelter program plans to start The Dwellings&#8217; expansion in the first or second quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee needs more affordable housing\u2014specifically for people facing homelessness. That\u2019s why Tallahassee&#8217;s shelter for the unhoused, the Kearny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-46689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689","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=46689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}