One of the necessities Albany’s designated homeless camp needed was a source of potable water. It didn’t have one on Wednesday, but now it does, thanks to Helping Hands.
Albany’s officially designated homeless camp, Marvin’s Garden, has at least three deficiencies that should be fixed, the city council learned Wednesday. Members listened to the report but made no move to act on it.
At Marvin’s Garden, the city of Albany’s designated camping site for homeless people who have nowhere else to go, the first residents appear to have moved in.
Albany’s designated camp site for homeless people at Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street now has a name: “Marvin’s Garden.”
A bike ride Wednesday took me past the vacant lot at 503 Ninth Ave. S.E., where the city of Albany plans to have homeless people camp if they can’t or won’t go to a shelter.
What to do with these city-owned lots?
Two parties have declared their interest in obtaining three lots owned by the City of Albany near the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Steet. And I’m trying to learn why the city owns these properties in the first place.
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