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Tuesdays @ Two Reducing Chronic Homelessness Series: Asheville

On August 21, 2013, NCCEH held its first in a series of three webinars about reducing chronic homelessness. This webinar highlighted Asheville/Buncombe County, which has reduced its incidence of chronic homelessness by 82%. Presenters Brian Alexander, Executive Director of Homeward Bound, and Heather Dillashaw, Coordinator of the Asheville-Buncombe Homeless Initiative, spoke about their community's strategies and partnerships that have resulted in this decrease. Click here to view the slides from the presentation. Archived Recording: Current NCCEH members may access a recording of the conference call and presentation.  Members will need to log in to the website to access the recording.  If you are not an NCCEH member and would like to access the recording, you can sign up for membership here.


Asheville Homelessness on WWNC 570 Radio

Amy Sawyer, Homeless Initiative Coordinator at the City of Asheville, and Robin Merrell, member of the Asheville-Buncombe Homeless Inititative Advisory Committee, discuss family homelessness with Tank Spencer of radio station WWNC 570.   Listen to the conversation on the WWNC website.  


Asheville overflow shelter is open, but not for long

Temporary shelter for 50 women at the Center of Hope still needs $22,000 to remain open to Nov. 30.   Asheville Citizen-Times Mark Price September 27, 2010   The Center of Hope's new overflow shelter on East Fifth Street has taken in its first 25 homeless women and expects to reach capacity in the next two weeks, as more new cots arrive.   Salvation Army officials have so far raised $55,000 for the 50-bed project, which is designed to ease overcrowding at the center's regular, 250-bed shelter for women and children.   But they remain $22,000 short of what's necessary to keep it operating through Nov. 30, when the Urban Ministry Center opens its winter shelter program, Room in the Inn.   As it stands now, there is a three-week shortage, said Deronda Metz, director of the Center of Hope …


Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools

by Erik Eckholm The New York Times Published: September 5, 2009       ASHEVILLE, N.C. - In the small trailer her family rented over the summer, 9-year-old Charity Crowell picked out the green and purple outfit she would wear on the first day of school. She vowed to try harder and bring her grades back up from the C's she got last spring — a dismal semester when her parents lost their jobs and car and the family was evicted and migrated through friends’ houses and a motel.     Charity is one child in a national surge of homeless schoolchildren that is driven by relentless unemployment and foreclosures. The rise, to more than one million students without stable housing by last spring, has tested budget-battered school districts as they try to carry out their responsibilities — and the …