The move is meant to bring HAT, as it’s known, under the same Civic Mall roof as other staff in the city’s Department of Human and Social Services.
Roanoke’s Homeless Assistance Team is moving out of its downtown offices beside the Amtrak platform to a social services building on Williamson Road.
The move is meant to bring HAT, as it’s known, under the same Civic Mall roof as other staff in the city’s Department of Human and Social Services, Carol Corbin, a city spokeswoman, said in an email. That “will make it easier to coordinate care, streamline referrals, and ultimately provide more consistent support for those experiencing homelessness,” she said.
The move will also free up ground-floor space at 1 Jefferson St., where the city has long said it wants to locate an Amtrak station. For the fiscal year that begins in July, the city has earmarked $1.9 million in bond funding for a passenger rail station…