A Wake County initiative announced Monday sets an ambitious goal of moving 400 people from homeless encampments into housing in the next 18 months.
Led by the Wake County Continuum of Care (CoC), the county’s umbrella organization for homeless services, with help from local government and private sector partners, the plan involves closing encampments across the county and offering their residents a year of housing, behavioral health, and workforce assistance to transition them out of homelessness. Some details of the plan, such as where the money will come from and when the first encampments will be decommissioned, aren’t yet public.
The plan, called Wake at Home, strikes a balance between “recogniz[ing] the humanity of people experiencing homelessness” and “responding to the concerns of the broader community,” according to a press release from the CoC. It comes on the heels of Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of an (unrelated, according to the county) bill banning “unauthorized camping” which seems likely to be overridden…