Several families on the brink of being unhoused gathered in uptown Charlotte on Monday, asking for more transparency about housing support intended to keep them sheltered.
Some residents at the Baymont motel, in northeast Charlotte’s Sugar Creek area, have had to leave after a city-funded program ended. Others who could continue to afford the rent were able to stay. LeVonte Cuspert is one of them, and she came to speak out on behalf of other families.
“If we don’t do anything and say anything now, how is it gonna change?” Cuspert said. “Because — guess what — even if I become stable and get stable housing, it’s gonna be another mother out there, or another mother and their grandparents and their kids out there [homeless].”…