Why Should Delaware Care? With the upcoming closure of Wilmington’s only sanctioned homelessness encampment, advocates are asking where unhoused people will live after its shutdown. City officials are currently considering sponsoring a pallet village initiative to be built by Springboard Delaware, but the plan is already facing pushback from communities.
A proposal to build a village of tiny homes for homeless people in Wilmington is running into early resistance from residents of Southbridge and the Eastside, two neighborhoods being considered as potential sites.
Mayor John Carney’s office is currently in talks with the Springboard Delaware — an organization that operates pallet-style shelter villages — about a plan to bring the tiny homes to Delaware’s largest city at a cost of about $1.5 million…