The site’s current nonprofit operator decided to pull out of the shelter.
A large homeless shelter in Sunnyvale is getting a new operator after the nonprofit currently in charge decided to pull out of the site amid allegations it discriminated against the facility’s Black employees and residents.
However, officials said the Bill Wilson Center is prepared to continue sheltering some single adults through June 2025 as the county works to move current residents at the site to other shelters or housing. Officials estimate there will be around 70 to 80 residents still living there by the time the nonprofit takes over next month. The maximum-stay limit at the shelter is currently 120 days, though residents can ask for extensions.
The county found itself scrambling to find a new shelter operator earlier this year after HomeFirst informed officials it planned to stop managing the facility. This was just days before supervisors appeared ready to accept county homelessness officials’ recommendation to renew the nonprofit’s shelter contract.
“We’re only going to have more elderly, disabled unhoused people as rents keep increasing far faster than Social Security,” said local advocate Kathryn Hedges.Nearly half of California’s homeless people are over 50. Their numbers and needs are growing “We don’t want to get to a zero-sum game where we’re pitting homeless families against homeless individuals,” he said.Dear Abby: I blew off the teacher's concerns, and now I feel so guilty about my sonThey had a ‘fling’ in Vegas and he promised to help her get a job at Tesla. When she arrived in Oakland, he revealed himself as a pimp, police say
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