DAVIS, Calif. — The Davis City Council is under increasing pressure to act on the future of the Davis Daytime Respite Center, but as staff analysis makes clear, none of the available options come without cost, community resistance or trade-offs.
The respite center, which provides meals, mail access, daytime rest and case management services for people experiencing homelessness, operates at an annual cost of about $501,616 within the city’s roughly $1.27 million homelessness services budget. In broader terms, Davis spends approximately $1.8 million per year on homelessness-related services.
Now the council must decide whether to relocate the center, restructure it or rethink the city’s overall approach…