CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville City Council will hear a State of Homelessness Report during the afternoon session of its Monday regular meeting.
It’s a subject that has consumed a lot of time and consideration since homeless people who had begun pitching tents and camping at Market Street Park in late summer 2023 were cleared by a curfew instituted by City Manager Sam Sanders that enforced the park closing hours from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Since then, advocates for the unhoused have pressed the city, and city leaders are responding, to what Sanders has acknowledged are inadequate housing and services for the area’s homeless…