Posted on January 27th, 2009 in
community,
homelessness
Earlier today, I posted information received from an HCD staff member with the City of Greensboro, detailing the relocation of 26 former residents of the Coliseum Inn, which was purchased by the City in November, and has since been closed. I questioned the low number of residents relocated, knowing that the hotel’s occupancy rate was far greater than 26 people. There were hundreds of people living at the hotel. I haven’t received any further information from the City, but tonight, I spoke to a homeless friend who gave me the names and locations of half a dozen of his friends who lost their housing when the Coliseum Inn closed, and are now back on the street, living outside — homeless. He told me that he could make me a longer list with the names of everyone he knows who got kicked out and is back on the street, and I plan to sit down with him and get that list.
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