ROANOKE, Va. – Mayor Joe Cobb presented his proposal for a task force to handle homelessness to the Roanoke City Council Monday afternoon. The “Mayor’s Hope and Home Task Force” would develop “comprehensive, actionable and measurable” solutions to the issues of homelessness in the community.
“The reality is whatever strategies we create, whatever action steps we create, we want to make sure they’re sustainable and that they’re long-lasting,” Cobb said.
He said the city had seen a dramatic reduction in homelessness before the COVID-19 pandemic, but that progress has slowed and even reversed in some cases…