State urged to extend motel benefits for homeless
“Individuals staying in the motels who had a medically certified disability could get an extension of 84 days, which ends Wednesday. For the Brattleboro area, that could mean about 50 people will be out of motels and looking for a place to stay.
Davis said since the eligibility requirements were rolled out, groups learned Federal Emergency Management Agency extended funding for non-congregant shelters until the end of December. He credited that source with providing the bulk of financing for the motel program for the last year-and-a-half.
Groundworks shelters are at capacity and the group is in need of more staff.
‘So to even maintain what we have is a real challenge right now so the addition of 50 folks into our community with no housing, we quite frankly don’t know what that looks like and aren’t prepared for that,’ Davis said. ‘These are folks we are really concerned about.'”