Tulsa mayor promises to decommission homeless camps, accelerate housing construction

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols released two executive orders to combat housing and homelessness in the city during his first months in office.

Nichols was elected at the end of last year and during his campaign for mayor, he promised to achieve functional zero homelessness in Tulsa by 2030. He said that means homelessness in the city will be “rare, brief and nonrecurring.”

“There’s been a lot of talk of how we reach that goal,” Nichols said during a press conference at City Hall, “but we’re ready to move beyond talk and formalize our commitment to getting there.”…

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