This week on In Focus, Albany Auditor Sam Fein details recent visit to Burlington’s Elmwood Community Shelter. <\/p>\n
Fein highlights the housing model that could benefit Albany’s Capital Region. He shares how the shelter features 30 tiny homes, each 70 square feet, providing private spaces and community amenities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fein also discusses benefits of the tiny home housing model for the unhoused. Fein emphasizes the importance of private space and wrap-around services like mental health and substance use treatment. He notes the challenges of transitioning to permanent housing due to high housing costs and shortages.<\/p>\n
Schenectady City Council President Carl Williams also talks about efforts to address homelessness and the housing crisis.<\/p>\n
Williams emphasizes the need for innovative solutions like pod villages to provide safe, stable environments for unhoused individuals, enabling better access to wraparound services. He highlights the city’s resource-rich organizations, including Bethesda House, SCAP, YWCA and theCity Mission, which offer support for mental health, substance abuse, and job services.<\/p>\n
You can watch the full interviews above. And be sure to tune in for a look inside the biggest issues impacting upstate New York, on In Focus with JoDee Kenney \u2014 every Sunday on Spectrum News 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on In Focus, Albany Auditor Sam Fein details recent visit to Burlington’s Elmwood Community Shelter. Fein…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52333,7423,7424,9,11,10,49,51,50,200],"class_list":["post-293805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ctv-in-focus-full-episode","tag-in-focus","tag-jodee-kenney","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}