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Mayor’s budget pitch doubles treatment spending but lowers targets, but city says there’s a reason

By Jesse Jones, City Desk in The Paper. — While reviewing Mayor Tim Keller’s $1.47 billion budget proposal, a counterintuitive number jumped out in the city’s Health, Housing and Homelessness Department budget: despite contracts for substance use treatment more than doubling to $5.5 million,the city expects to serve fewer people, lowering its target from 650 […]