About 40 people experiencing homelessness in Oklahoma City could be placed in state-funded housing by September. It’s the only time The Homeless Alliance, an Oklahoma City shelter, can remember the state agreeing to pay for housing for people experiencing homelessness in the area.
Jamie Caves, strategy implementation manager for Key to Home, said the organization has never before received state funding for encampment rehousing.
The Frontier first reported in November a proposed agreement for the state to pay up to $800,000 for housing and services for those displaced by Gov. Kevin Stitt’s operation to clear homeless encampments from state property. The negotiations marked a hard turn from Stitt’s previous stance against using tax dollars to house people experiencing homelessness…