After a multi-million dollar pilot to house homeless people at the Vagabond Inn ended last month, Long Beach officials continue to rent motel space elsewhere for more than a dozen of them still seeking permanent relief from the program.
Officials hope to have them placed elsewhere “within the next month or so,” be that at a permanent home, some form of temporary shelter or another motel.
It comes as the city ended its $2.4 million pilot at the 60-room Vagabond as of June 1. The one-year pilot temporarily housed people who would otherwise languish in the clusters of tents and shanties along a five-block stretch downtown, including Lincoln Park, around the Metro A Line and outside Billie Jean King Main Library.
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These are people with a high rate of drug overdoses, mental illness and chronic homelessness — meaning they’ve been unhoused for more than five years, according to the city’s application for state funding that covered the project…