The City of Davis is scrambling to find a replacement for the Downtown Streets Team, which will be shutting down the Daytime Respite Center at the end of October, leaving hundreds of unhoused residents without access to essential services.
There were legitimate complaints from people living in the area to be sure. But there was not an adequate distinction at times between the population its and the management (or lack there of) of the facility. Those should be treated as separate and distinct – and remedies should focus on better management of the population, not removing a vulnerable population from the area that has realistically no other place to go for valuable services.
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