BY MICHAEL CROUCHLEY
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"Those folks that have been receiving help twice a week are going to need some assistance." DON MAGNER, RICHARDSON CITY MANAGER
The city is expecting to lose a “key partner” in its unhoused support strategy, Magner said, as Local Good Pantry will cease operations at its current location. The pantry on Sherman Street, just across the road from the Spring Valley DART Station, and provides “a few hundred” meals to unhoused individuals in Richardson twice a week, Magner said. He added the pantry’s current lease is not being renewed and will be up in September. Local Good plans to stop service at the end of July to clear out the space and plan to find their next home. Magner said staff will meet with religious institutions in the city to come up with an “interim strategy” to provide support. He added that city staff has worked to facilitate collaboration with entities “doing really good work in this realm.” “If there are gaps, we want to make sure those gaps can be identified. And so we’re doing that with the help of the Richardson Interfaith Alliance
The city of Dallas and Dallas County have already pledged $20 million in funding toward expanding Housing Forward’s street outreach program. Dallas County commissioners have until August to decide whether a property tax increase of 2.4 cents per $100 of assessed value to help fund the initiative will appear on the November ballot. Khan said that the tax bump would raise around $100 million, allowing Housing Forward to expand its outreach program to “every corner of Dallas County.”
Local Good Pantry
The Local Good Pantry offers a drive- thru food pantry twice per week.
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as well as the Network of Community Ministries,” Magner said. “We’ve got a few months to try to create some kind of a interim strategy.”
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