Put another way, of the 70 beds at Emergency Shelter, only 25 shelter beds are funded. In all of Johnson County, Iowa—12 cities and the entire rural area—public dollars pay for only 25 beds.
Twenty-five shelter beds in a community where even households who earn at or above the median income struggle to find housing they can afford.
Number of beds in the proposal for a new $100,000,000 to $110,000,000 Johnson County jail, 100 percent publicly funded: 140.