homelessness

Gov. Matt Meyer’s Interagency Collaborative to End Homelessness– tasked with cutting homelessness in half and ending youth homelessness in Delaware within the next five years–takes its next steps toward that goal.

New Castle County entered a contract with Veteran Services CEO Joseph M. Walls, supporting an effort to create affordable transitional housing for veterans and unhoused people in Bear.

The site has mobile restrooms installed, and Mayor John Carney included funds in his proposed budget last week to station mobile showers and washers at the park as well.

The William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center offers a warm place to stay and meals through breakfast Tuesday.

The county received about $11 million in funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury through the SIPPRA Family HOPE Project.

About 150 people moved into the community center between Saturday and Tuesday, when they were then spread out between local shelters, churches and hotels.

Wilmington city officials established Christina Park as a city-sanctioned unhoused community site in October.

The subcommittee will follow up on the Homelessness Taskforce's recommendations submitted earlier this year.

That includes opening a city-owned park to the unhoused community to live in.

The recommendations have five focuses, including affordable housing and establishing a day center.