2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 21 May 2006 08:02:08 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Athens Navy Supply Corps School (GA) and the homeless
 
Navy base uses: Homeless in picture
Federal law spurs advocates to float ideas

By Blake Aued
Athens Banner-Herald (GA)
May 21, 2006

A Normaltown military base that's trained sailors and Marines for 60 years could one day train the homeless to lead normal lives.

Redeveloping the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School could be the key to solving Athens' growing homelessness problem. Local advocates for the homeless are starting to talk about how they can take advantage of a federal law that requires redevelopment of the 58-acre base to take homelessness into account.

The law, known as the Redevelopment Act, is broadly written. Possibilities include taking over the Navy school's day-care center, medical and dental offices, apartments and classrooms to offer "one stop" services to the homeless; apartments to add to an inadequate stock of housing, or simply taking a check from the sale of the base to bolster the shrinking government funding available to nonprofit groups. The base's closing could lead to a sea change in the way Athens helps its estimated 475 homeless residents.


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For the entire article see
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/052106/news_20060521110.shtml

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org

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