Item A: Opportunity Eugene Task Force Update

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12. City agrees to work with existing local healthcare organizations to identify ways to increase access to healthcare, including providing organizational or staff support as needed. 13. Encourage peer-support mental health services specific to the needs of the homeless 14. The city of Eugene/the Task Force agrees that housing is a basic human right, as recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United progressively implemented as resources allow. Because basic adequate shelter for all who need it is a core minimum requirement of this right, the City should constantly strive to address this need. Other rights, such as freedom from cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment should be immediately implemented, including immediately ceasing punishing homeless persons for basic life activities like sleeping or eating in public, when they have nowhere else to go. Intermediate 1. Continue talks with local agencies to establish a wet bed facility. a. A pilot program should begin within 6 months. b. Location of the program may be a temporary structure if no other suitable structure is found and should not be in the vicinity of item # 2 below. 2. Make available one or more sites by Oct 1, 2012 for people who currently do not have housing that will provide: a. A safe and secure place to be, independently financed and managed by a not-for- profit organization or agency, with the ability to control access to the site b. An alternative, transitional community that demonstrates inexpensive, innovative shelter and enables those who are currently homeless to find temporary shelter, food, basic health care, community and an opportunity to become self-sufficient and to participate in self-governance c. Access to public transportation and services d. Temporary exemption from applicable laws/ordinances for the first six months, to be reviewed annually thereafter for renewal