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Bmrc Neeos <br />' Consistent housing and direct transportation to services for cohorts of individuals guided <br />by basic needs coordinators/navigators. Ctothing, laundry services. Shower, grooming. Showers and laundry (food and ctothing banks atready exist) <br />' Laundry service and shower area that are free drop-in services. Basic needs. Meeting basic needs <br />CoMMUNICATION. lntentionaI outreach-assessment, referrats, detivery of services, transitional support <br />. Educating the pubtic on demographics, abitities, capacity <br />. Communitygatherings/meetings. Focus on preventing homelessness by preventing social stigma <br />Question 5: Previous priorities have included increasing affordabte <br />housing, increasing shelter and other support services, preventing <br />hometessness, improving the hometess response system, and expanding <br />community engagement, awareness, and education. Are these still <br />priorities or have they shifted? <br />People with Lived Experience: Generatty, participants didn't disagree that these are priorities, <br />but they woutd tike to see more progress in them. lt was mentioned that there's been limited <br />increase in affordabte housing (Spurting Court) and there are stitl wait lists everywhere. They atso <br />expressed that addressing barriers, especiatty stigma, needs to be a priority. There was atso some <br />discussion about price gouging teading to high rents and there being more housing out there than <br />what peopte are aware of. <br />. "There are a lot of things missing from the priorities. I do think it reatty heavily needs to <br />be worked on. I do see some improvement, but believe there needs to be more action put <br />in. tt <br />. "My personal opinion is that the onty increase in affordable housing (which is a reatty big <br />one) in the last five years has been Spurting Court." <br />. "l think there's a lot more housing avaitabte here than anyone is teading to betieve....a lot <br />of it is being price gouged to keep peopte in poverty out of it." <br />Service Providers: Participants discussed trespassing people being a concern and that maybe <br />community fatigue with the issue has something to do with it. Peopte who are trespassed from <br />the cotd weather shetter often end up getting into jait. Participants suggested coming up with an <br />atternative to jait. Atso discussed was having more information about services avaitabte and <br />addressing peopte who have pets. <br />. "Severat peopte who have crossed my path have been trespassed here, there, and <br />everywhere. I futty understand why that may have happened, but something has made this <br />person react or act the way they do. There stilt has to be a ptace for someone." <br />13