Monroe County Offers Alternative Housing for those Staying in Parking Garage

In their efforts to find alternative housing for people staying inside a parking garage in Downtown Rochester, Monroe County has responded with a current solution. Starting last night, anyone who was staying in the Civic Center Garage will be offered alternative housing. According to Adam Bello, 44 people have already been placed into housing. Monroe County will cover the cost of shelters, hotels, and transportation to these shelters.

Adam Bello stated: “Every person now inhabiting the garage has a bed available to sleep in. Living in unsafe, unsanitary and increasingly violence circumstance is inhumane, degrading to the individual, and threatening to people who park in the garage”

Stephanie Forrester, an advocate for the homeless commented on Bello’s statement, saying: “We can keep putting people into hotels temporarily. That’s not a solution. It only lasts for so long and they end up right back in the same situation that they have been.”

Source: 13 WHAM