In this week’s First Coast Connect Media Roundtable our panel of journalists looked at:
- Jacksonville and JTA getting $25 million in federal money to improve downtown traffic flow and start work on the Bay Jax Innovation Corridor.
- Mayor Lenny Curry’s administration saying it wants to eventually move the downtown jail.
- And other news making headlines this week.
Our guests were:
- John Burr, WJCT contributor
- Dan Scanlan, a reporter with The Florida Times-Union
- Timothy Gibbons, Jacksonville Business Journal Editor
- Sherry Magill, co-founder of JaxLookout.com
The Solution That Saves
Ability Housing is out this month with the results of a two-year state pilot calledThe Solution That Saves, which has been studying the cost benefits of permanent supportive housing.
Shannon Nazworth, the CEO of Ability Housing joined us with a look at the findings and what they could mean for policy in 2019 and beyond.
Bill Bortzfield can be reached at bbortzfield@wjct.org, 904-358-6349 or on Twitter at @BortzInJax.