Why children are sleeping in a Wake County government office building

On any given night, a half-dozen or more children and teenagers are sleeping in a Wake County government building.

They sleep on air mattresses in converted conference rooms, tucked away from public spaces across multiple floors of Wake County’s Human Services Swinburne building.

There’s one shower. All their meals are brought in because there is no kitchen. Laundry is picked up and brought back…

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