homelessness

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.

The potential village could be modeled after a pallet village in Georgetown run by Springboard Delaware.

New County Councilmembers heard the resolution presenting the partnership with Delaware Family Hope at Tuesday’s Council meeting.

Council voted in favor of the permit 3-2.