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I am a big critic of how the city is so often mismanaged. I'm convinced a majority of council members and mayor are just in it as a means to higher office with support from their developer friends. This time I appreciate how the city appears to be making an effort. I agree with Bob Jacobs comment, "The devil is in the details". Having said this I must mention there are many lower hanging fruits to addressing homelessness the city is missing. These include leasing some of the many long term vacant offices spaces and strip mall stores to install mini transitional apartments, to help homeless families get back on their feet. These buildings are often close to bus lines, other businesses looking for employees and also unencumbered by nearby home owners afraid of transitional housing getting sited in their neighborhood. Another step the city can do is to Quit giving away these asinine zero residential property tax sweet heart deals to developers building apartments. These deals can not extend up to 20 years, are a slap in the face to any other resident whose paying their fair share of property taxes and lastly these are going to corporate owned apartment buildings instead of owner oppupied