Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston is preparing to launch a new county initiative that would put county-operated vans on the road visiting homeless encampments, wooded areas and the scattered pockets of people living behind stores, hotels and industrial buildings from Greensboro to High Point.
The purpose is simple and direct: find homeless residents where they actually are, offer them transportation to shelters or treatment if they want it, and, if they don’t, at least give them blankets, food, and other basic supplies they need to stay alive on nights like the ones the county has experienced lately.
Alston hasn’t formally presented the plan to the Board of Commissioners yet; however, as everyone in Guilford County government knows, once Alston wants something, it usually happens…