So this week, the Associated Press ran an article about a housing project in Charlotte called Moore Place, which provides housing (rent and utilities are 30% of a resident's income), counseling, job training, money management instruction and on-site healthcare to the homeless.
The below picture is of Moore Place — a complex of 85 efficiency apartments — that opened recently after 10 years of planning and fundraising the $10 million pricetag primarily from private donors. What do you think of the idea? HERE is the link for more information on the project, which claims to permanently house someone for less than $30 a night (residents do their own cooking and cleaning to keep costs down).
What do you think of the idea? Do you think housing projects like this encourage residents to find jobs and trade in a life on the streets? What do you think keeps people chronically homeless? How big do you think Rocky Mount's chronically homeless population is? Do you think something like this could work in Rocky Mount? How do you think programs like this compare to the services offered by United Community Ministries?
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"Housing first" has proven to work in many places. Many individuals who are without homes have legal, addiction, relational, and mental health barriers to obtaining decent housing. In order to recover their lives, it certainly helps to have a hopeful and positive environment -both emotionally and physically. United Community Ministries, Christian Fellowship Homes and others are working to address these issues. Adding an option like this one in Charlotte which I have been familiar with would be great if capital could be raised and if the community supported it. A person who is homeless need help to overcome the plethora of difficulties in order to have s home that most truly desire. Financially, the bandaid approach hasn't worked. And morally, no matter what we think of those who experience "home" differently than we do-we must concern ourselves with the human suffering.
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