TOPEKA, Kan (AP) - An anonymous $100,000 donation might allow all the residents of a tent city for Topeka homeless residents to move to indoor housing if they want it.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the donation was made last week to Valeo Behavioral Health Care, a non-profit mental health agency.
Valeo is among several city, state and private organizations that make up Topeka’s Homeless Task Force.
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services’s representative on the task force is Misty Bosch-Hastings, who said the donation is enough to fund 28 vouchers for six months. Because some of the 45 people living in the tent city are couples, she said she expects the vouchers to help all tent city residents who want indoor housing.
The voucher program comes as tent city residents must vacate the land by March 23. The tent city is on land owned by BNSF Railway, which plans to begin removing people from its property and clearing the land, according to an email sent to the task force by a BNSF official.
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