Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. The nonprofit Sulzbacher and the city of Jacksonville are finalizing an agreement to provide 32 shelter beds for single women experiencing homelessness.
City Council recently voted 17-0 to authorize $413,900 for the Jacksonville-based provider of housing and essential services to unhoused people convert office space at its Downtown center into dormitory space.
Brian Snow, president of housing and human services for Sulzbacher, says the beds are in response to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department’s PATH team — short for Providing Assistance to the Homeless — noting an uptick in unhoused single women over the last two years in Duval County…