Pensacola Making Progress on Multiple Homelessness Initiatives

Pensacola, FL (NewsRadio 92.3) -- The City of Pensacola says it's making headway on three separate efforts to address homelessness. The Police Department's Community Response Specialists have had nearly seventeen-hundred interactions with homeless residents since twenty-twenty-three, placing or referring more than three-hundred people to shelter or housing. A hundred-thousand dollar city investment in Children's Home Society's Hand Up for Youth program has already helped twenty-one young people get stable housing — exceeding the original goal. And a pallet shelter program run with Re-Entry Alliance Pensacola has grown from fourteen units to twenty-seven. Mayor D-C Reeves says no city can solve homelessness alone — but partnerships are the best chance at making a real difference.