Flagstaff Shelter Services buys motel, provides support to even more people
Flagstaff Shelter Services has been on the front line of community response to COVID. From the beginning, they helped to protect the most medically vulnerable by paying for private rooms at a local motel. When our unsheltered neighbors contracted COVID, they, too, were housed in private motel rooms in order to recover and help stop the spread. On April 30, 2022 Flagstaff celebrated the housewarming of The Crown, a motel that FSS purchased. The motel has already been put into service as emergency housing and will eventually become permanently supportive housing.
“The newly acquired site provides more than 72,000 square feet, including 58 rooms, and is expected to serve more than 1,000 people annually with emergency shelter in addition to the comprehensive services clients of congregate shelter receive (meals, medical care, behavioral health, and rehousing services). The site will eventually transition to provide permanent supportive housing to help the community’s critical shortage of affordable housing.”
Councilmember Shimoni, Lucky, FSS Executive Director Ross Shaefer, Councilmember Aslan, and I at the housewarming.
Flagstaff Shelter Services board members and Executive Director Ross Schaefer.
