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San Bernardino County will develop a navigation center in Fontana to assist homeless people.
The board of supervisors on March 10 agreed to buy property at 11109 Jasmine St., and convert a vacant warehouse there into a 200-bed shelter, according to a statement on the county’s website.
A navigation center helps people move from living on the street to permanent housing.
“The board’s action on this agenda item moves us closer to opening a navigation center that will provide critical support for people experiencing homelessness,” said Supervisor Dawn Rowe in the statement. “It will connect individuals to the resources they need to gain stability and thrive.”
Cost of the property is $11.6 million, not counting the renovation and other expenses. The facility is expected to be ready in early 2027.
Chino, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto and Upland will help pay for start-up costs and yearly operating expenses, according to the statement.
The facility will serve only individuals referred to it by the county. It will offer behavioral health services, medical care, case management, transportation assistance and housing placement, according to the statement.
My Uncle could really use this. He’s been on the streets for at least 10 years or more.
Let him in the house he’s been homeless for ten years and that’s your uncle shame on you,what happened to family love.
It’s about time they thought about helping the homeless but 200 hundred I isent enough they got money they need to put help in San Bernardino to rialto Colton highland there’s homes big homes empty building s to fix and house people even if they bought property or rent property to put tents up and run a program there like the jail in arizona there to focused on there lives and how to spend the governments money that doesn’t belong to them San Bernardino doesn’t care about nobody maybe one or two but there jobs are all about a name for them self and the money that make look at the trash everywhere homeless on every corner this city is ugly dirty and nasty because they don’t care about cleaning it up where’s the money who’s in charge of the money .well it shouldn’t take two years to get the program going shut we might all be dead by then .