Gilroy homeless plan lacks details for next steps

A South County committee on homelessness — funded by a nonprofit dedicated to solving the problem  — spent thousands of dollars to develop a plan to support homeless residents, but showed up empty handed at the Gilroy City Council meeting last week. Destination: Home provided $54,557 in funding to Gilroy to pay for Homebase, a nonprofit adviser that helps cities build plans to end homelessness. The funds covered costs for six meetings that included outreach to supportive service providers, research into cities such as Tulare and San Jose on their approaches to homelessness and documentation of the committee’s priorities and next steps. But at the Nov. 2 council meeting, the only recommendation brought forth by ad hoc committee was to build a stable and managed site for unhoused people — with no specifics on how or where it would be built, how much it would cost and where funding would come from. “Given six meetings with a wide cross section of people in the ad hoc committee and at (rou