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The solar project will cut down on month costs and fulfill Occupy Madison s vision of a sustainable community, volunteer Bruce Wallbaum said. (Shutterstock)
MADISON, WI Running on solar power has always been part of the plan for Occupy Madison.
And now, as part of Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway s federal COVID-19 aid proposal, that dream will be fulfilled for the housing nonprofit. Occupy Madison, best known for its tiny house villages, has long prioritized economic and environmental sustainability, Bruce Wallbaum, one of the nonprofit s co-founders, told Patch.
The nonprofit will receive $150,000 as part of the disbursement of federal funds by the city, which will cover the entire project. Two solar arrays will be installed atop the main buildings which are used for shared facilities and gift shops of each respective village. The two villages are located at 304 North Third Street and 1901 Aberg Avenue.
It runs from July 16 to 31.
At the time of publication, only 10 percent of the one-hour, volunteer bell-ringing shifts were filled, so the Salvation Army is asking for more people to volunteer their time.
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The kettles will be in stores like Pick N Save, Hy-Vee, Metcalfe s and Walgreens.
The money raised goes to shelter, housing and community program initiatives.
Total makeover: Nursing home renovated into homeless shelter By: Associated Press May 8, 2021
9:00 am
By DEAN MOSIMAN
Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON, Wis. (AP) In four months, the city and Salvation Army of Dane County have turned a vacated former nursing home in Madison into a shelter that will better serve 35 of the neediest local homeless families.
The city in January acquired the 36,192-square-foot former Karmenta Center, set on 3.3 acres at 4502 Milwaukee St., for $2.75 million. Since then, it has been refurbishing the former nursing home so the Salvation Army, which has long provided shelter to homeless single women and families at 630 E. Washington Ave., can move families there from hotels being used during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dane County’s homeless shelters have spent the past ten months implementing plans to prevent community spread of the COVID-19 virus through the local homeless population. Now, those same pandemic-induced adaptations are helping local shelters weather this week’s dangerous cold front.
Casey Becker, Director of Dane County’s Division of Housing Access and Affordability, says that the city and county spent most of 2020 preparing to expand homeless service into additional space if it became necessary.
“So when the cold came, we had already had practice in finding these temporary spaces and finding additional capacity,” she says.
Becker says that – in preparation for this week’s cold – local officials began moving some homeless residents into hotels. That strategy was initially intended for a different use: quarantining homeless people with a higher risk of contracting COVID-19.
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