The newly-renovated council building in Truro will provide homes for people at risk of homelessness.
Known as the Somewhere Safe to Stay hub, the new complex, which was a former council building, will provide nine single-occupancy rooms. Residents are expected to stay for between three and 10 days, before moving on to longer-term accommodation.
The housing crisis has affected thousands of people across the UK as the cost-of-living began to squeeze people’s budgets, but the local authority in Cornwall have attempted to help ensure locals always have a roof over their head.
Prior to creating the new homeless shelter, a ‘roving’ Somewhere Safe to Stay hub operated in the same space although this has now been replaced.
Olly Monk, Cornwall Council cabinet portfolio holder for housing, said the building on River Street was a ‘fantastic project which will place a key role in reducing homelessness.’
Cllr Monk added: ‘Not only will it provide people who have been sleeping rough with a safe place to stay and support them on their path to permanent accommodation, it will also bring a vacant building back into a meaningful use for the local community.’
A team of seven people from the council will be supporting residents once they have been placed into the temporary accommodation.
In addition to providing new safe spaces for people facing homelessness the new establishment is also helping to ensure emissions created from new developments remain limited. As the new safe to stay place has been created in a pre-existing building no demolition fumes or emissions from new materials were emitted into the atmosphere.
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