Why Should Delaware Care?With New Castle County accounting for about 60% of the state’s homeless population, Wilmington has seen its unhoused population grow both in size and need. In response, Mayor John Carney has announced how the city will begin addressing the issue, starting with a subset of the recommendations from the task force he established earlier this year.
As the city deals with a growing number of homeless people, Wilmington will restrict encampments to an Eastside park that has long been home to one while opening a day center to provide social services to the population, Mayor John Carney announced Wednesday.
Both ideas are among recommendations submitted to the mayor by the city’s Homelessness Task Force, a group he established earlier this year to develop strategies to better serve the unhoused population, engage them in moving toward stable housing, and better coordinate resources and services across the city…