Central Florida’s first mobile homeless shelters are one step closer to debuting, after the Downtown Orlando Community Redevelopment Agency board approved an adaptive reuse project Wednesday that utilizes buses to provide emergency, overnight respite.
Citing the state’s camping ban and the need for municipalities to come up with immediate solutions to unsheltered homelessness to prevent criminalization, the DTO CRA has been proposing ideas for shelters over the last year. The board voted to move forward with the plan of using buses, stating it expects a warm reception from the rest of the community.
The project is called The 407 Connect, after the area code and also the number of people projected to be housed and helped off the streets from being connected to local resources, which is a major part of this three-year bus shelter program.
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