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A Keene nonprofit that operates an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness continues to search for a home of its own, after the city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment rejected its petition to use a vacant property on King Court.
A Vermont program that housing advocates say functionally ended homelessness in the state this year may soon be phased out with the upcoming expiration of pandemic-era emergency funding, putting nearly 2,500 people in a vulnerable situation.
Christian faith leaders criticized city officials in an Oct. 15 letter, arguing that they have failed to help Hundred Nights replace the lost wintertime overflow housing. They urged the city to quickly facilitate Hundred Nights’ move to a pair of adjacent Water Street properties, which city records show the organization has not yet purchased despite having received a land-use variance in September to manage a homeless shelter on the site.