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Advocates call on North Charleston to address homelessness
VIDEO: Advocates call on North Charleston to address homelessness By Nick Reagan | May 18, 2021 at 3:27 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 7:19 PM
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Activists are calling on the City of North Charleston to make meaningful strides to tackle the problem of homelessness.
On Tuesday morning, representatives from Walking Women Welfare, Favor Foundation, Five Star Legacy Group, Covenant House of Recovery for Women, and Destiny Café gathered outside the café to demand the city create a more attainable path for those experiencing homelessness to transition back into society.
“I think since we have been standing here just because I know what it looks like, I have seen about five homeless people walk by,” Aquilla Kirk said.
Efforts to help homeless people get out of the criminal justice system and into more social services might get a boost Tuesday night. That’s when the City Council will vote on a proposed $254,000 grant to run a pilot Homeless Court program.
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The money, which comes from a Community Development Block Grant, would run the new Homeless Court through June 30, 2022, and would include the hiring of an additional full-time Homeless Court Coordinator in the City Prosecutor’s office, according to a report to the City Council from Health and Human Services Director Kelly Colopy. The grant funding includes the option to renew the program for three one-year periods.
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Federal prosecutors filed charges against the recently terminated CEO of one of New York’s largest homeless shelter networks. They allege he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from contractors hired by the nonprofit organization he led for two decades.
These charges were in addition to the sexual abuse and financial impropriety charges that resulted in his firing last month. Victor Rivera, according to the prosecutors, had enriched himself for years.
In the heart of the nation’s financial services capital, in the heart of its homelessness capital, in the heart of someone who professedly cares about the homeless, how do such egregious crimes happen even once, let alone over 10 years without notice?
“I couldn’t put a mother with a teenage son in a women’s shelter, but I can put a mother with a teenage son in a cottage,” Price said. “We will be able to put fathers with children here on campus.”
Cottages in Pathway Village will be able to house a mother and up to five children. Pathway House is currently in Phase 1 of the development of Pathway Village. The shelter is looking for cottage sponsorships from businesses and individuals - it currently has funding for six of the 12 cottages in the first phase - and is seeking donations from the public for the development of a centralized, commercial dining hall between the village and the men’s and women’s shelter, along with furnishings for the cottages.