By: Katie Sobiech
July 30th was a beautiful day where more than 200 people gathered for the grand opening of The Commons at Madeline Park.
This new Permanent Supportive Housing facility holds apartments for 60 individuals who were once homeless, have special needs, are veterans and/or struggle with mental illness or other setbacks.
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With some pretty big changes coming to the Continuum of Care (COC), new questions and hope begin to arise:
Will Transitional Housing in Summit County become a thing of the past?
Is Permanent Supportive Housing better?
Should those who are homeless have to address mental issues, addictions and any other issues they have in order to stay in government funded housing?
All of these things have been addressed by those who serves our area’s homeless population day in and day out.
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By Katie Sobiech Homelessness was looking like a reality for Angeline, her husband and their two dogs, until…