Wake at Home, Wake County’s new initiative aimed at ending unsheltered homelessness, is experiencing some early momentum, Wake County commissioners heard on Monday.
“We are extremely thrilled and proud of the work of the community who successfully rehoused over 30 individuals from one of the large encampment sites in our community,” said Eileen Rosa, the director of Wake County’s Continuum of Care, the county’s umbrella organization for homeless services, during a virtual meeting of the county Board of Commissioners’ Affordable Housing Committee. “This was about an eight-week process. It was a new approach.”
Rosa didn’t give more details on the 30 people who were housed, such as which encampment they moved from, but indicated that county staff and partners were working to ensure they remained in housing…