Progress on homelessness on horizon

There has been a lot of momentum on homelessness in the city, more than I can recall in the past decade. There is the CHAIN Initiative, which promises to spend a year investigating how to "move the needle" on chronis homelessness in the City, and then to implement a pilot strategy. There is the new City Manager's Task Force on homelessness, which will hopefully create a workable blueprint to tackle the issue as well.

I am cautiously optimistic that we may have momentum on the issue that will have real results.

This is extremely important because homelessness is imbedded deeply in the fabric of poverty of District 4. New energy and ideas are needed to galvanize an actionable plan to turn around the lack of housing in the district, and the accompanying tragedies of inner city homelessness.

Lynne has always been a champion of the dispossessed in the city, and I truly believe that she will represent the broad constiuency of district 4, from the tax-paying homeowner to the destitute homeless person. We need a workable blueprint to get the ball rolling.