Mayor Keller: Tell us, how did you find out about the
Gateway or the Housing Navigation
Center? How did you originally find out
about it and what what was going on in
your lives?
Adrienne: Kind of a traumatic event. Starting like
back It was in October. She got shot.
Mayor Keller: Oh my goodness.
Lisa: On my front porch.
On our front porch. We lived there for
13 years and
that started the down here spiral and
had a friend that knew
you know
about the Gateway and how to
go through the process.
And then we've been here
going through the process.
This is my second time of being
homeless. That was almost 20 years ago.
But anybody that's been down that path,
you don't know how exhausted you are
when you finally get a place to sit down
it and not have to worry about it. It's
It's been so positive from the time we
walked through the door. There's been
nothing negative. Just everything
to put you back where where you were
before you walked in the door.
Mayor Keller: So what have they been working with you
on in the the center in terms of you
know
during the day? So you're there and you
know how are they trying to help you
rebuild things?
Lisa: Because we got evicted so quickly I
didn't you know
the one the couple of things I left
behind was in my birth certificate my
social so they're helping me get that.
They helped me get on to
while we're in this situation EBT
and that kind of thing. Um and then I'm
doing they're helping with job search. I
cannot believe how positive and how it
They pay attention to everything.
I guess I wasn't in my normal mood and
one of the the employees pulled me, are
you okay? Is there something we can do?
Is there something we're not doing?
They're very attentive. They pay
attention to your personality. They pay
attention to make sure that you're okay
and what's going on.
Mayor Keller: What would you say is the biggest
misconception about the center?
Lisa: I've heard everything from it's a money
pit to a waste of taxpayers' money to
and it's not a money pit and they do do
ex-
exceptional. I was here for 3 hours. I
had a case manager.
I was on my way to getting you know, EBT
and all that. It's 3 hours into being
here.
So, how don't tell me they're not doing
anything.
Adrienne: The again, the biggest challenge right
now is just getting housing. But again,
through that eviction
is first and foremost. And I think
they're just being here is going to
allow us to kind of breathe and breathe
out with that and be able to focus on
how we're going to get make it through
that with the barriers that we might
have.