On Wednesday, January 28th, the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County conducted its annual Point in Time Count, a nation-wide count of the homeless mandated by the Department of Housing and Development. The yearly census, conducted over a 24-hour period each January, helps determine the funding that each community receives … > read more
Remember when I wrote about the homeless camps at MLK & Lee that the City wanted cleared for a new owner? (Posts here, here, here, here.) I was asked by City staff to help notify the homeless folks who stayed there, and I agreed, because as I explained at the … > read more
Check out Jordan Green’s story in the current YES! Weekly about homeless camps being cleared to make way for development at MLK and Lee Sts. in Greensboro. I started writing about it after the City contacted me and asked if I’d help alert the homeless folks that the land was … > read more
On Friday night, the Night Watch team visited the MLK/Lee property (more here, here.) We were early and no one had come back to sleep yet, but there were signs that someone was still staying there. This afternoon, less than 48 hours later, I drove back by to check on … > read more
Yesterday, Katherine and I went back to visit the old Red Shield Lodge property at MLK and Lee, to see if we could find anyone else staying there. We found and talked with folks along MLK, and even met up with one guy walking across the property, but he just … > read more