Leon County Commission

The commission is allocating $500,000 to help developers build projects for very low- and extremely low-income households.

The Leon County Commission approved the move Tuesday by a slim 4 to 3 margin. This will be the fourth year in a row that county employees have received a 5% pay increase.

The new HOST deputy will conduct more patrols and conduct monthly meetings for women and girls who are clients of homeless shelters

The proposal comes from the collaboration of county staff and the Capital Area Justice Ministry

The facility is actually 2 parks in one with separate play spaces for large and smaller dogs.

Leon County and Tallahassee elected officials don’t like the state’s requirement that forces them to enter into agreements between their local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration enforcement, but they say their hands are tied.

Commissioner Rick Minor says spending Blueprint money on affordable housing efforts could shortchange road improvements.

The nation’s annual survey of homelessness will take place during the last full week of January. That’s when local social service agencies like the Big Bend Continuum of Care, fan out into communities to take stock of who is unsheltered.

The 2022 Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness says the fundamental solution to homelessness is affordable housing

The 2025 Point-in-Time Count of people experiencing homelessness will be conducted late this month