[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA) homeless

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord leaders debating homeless accommodations on weapons station land

By Tanya Rose
Contra Costa Times (CA)
November 28, 2008


CONCORD - City leaders are debating how to accommodate some of the 
county's homeless population on the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station.

City Council members are trying to decide whether Concord should put $25 
million into a trust for homeless services and housing throughout the 
county, or instead approve a plan for 260 "homeless" housing units on 
the former military base. The federal government, through its base 
closure laws, requires that communities overseeing a base closure 
dedicate part of the land or money made off it to homeless causes.

Amie Fishman of East Bay Housing Organizations told the City Council on 
Monday she favors the "homeless" units be spread among 12,000 units of 
proposed affordable housing units on the base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/localnews/ci_11099351?nclick_check=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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