Why Should Delaware Care?With the closure of Wilmington’s sanctioned homeless encampment, city officials were considering sponsoring a tiny-home village initiative, in partnership with the nonprofit, Springboard Delaware. The plan relied on COVID-era dollars, but those funds have since been lost.
Wilmington officials lost $1.6 million in federal COVID-era relief funding after failing to finalize plans for a tiny home village prior to a state deadline to spend the money.
The development comes after weeks of conversations among city officials and residents over whether the city should move forward with the project to provide the housing assistance to Wilmington’s growing homeless population…