Ending Homelessness Raleigh / Wake County NC

www.raleighnc.gov/endinghomelessness
Raleigh/Wake Partnership to End Homelessness: Ten Year Action Plan
We live in a community with a high quality of life, however, more than 77,000 people live in poverty, 3,300 people including 700 children, experience homelessness during the course of a year and on a given night there are 1,100 people, including 300 children and 120 veterans, who are literally homeless.




Faith-Based Support Circle Partnership
The hallmark of our 10-Year Plan is the nationally recognized faith-based Support Circle program that constructs support teams of 6-10 members from local congregations to sustain families and individuals as they transition from homelessness. All the funds donated to this program go into housing subsidies that are matched two to one by participating congregations and local government. We are excited to say that in less than two years of full operation, 22 congregations of varied denominations from across the City of Raleigh and Wake County formed Support Circles to help 26 homeless households; approximately 189 volunteers provided housing and hope to 89 homeless individuals, including 59 children.
Making a Donation
Your donation will enable members of local congregations to help homeless families as they gain stable employment, move into housing and regain stability in their lives.
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- mail a donation to: Triangle Community Foundation, 324 Blackwell St. Suite 1220, Durham N.C. 27701, make check payable to "Ending Homelessness Raleigh / Wake Fund of TCF".

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[ManessK]

Smitty, Thanks for your comments, they are on target. Many communities are moving from systems that enable homelessness to a focus on addressing the key components that cause it. Unfortunately many feel that they have done their job if they make a sandwich on Saturday and hand it out. Most persons who are homeless work full or part time jobs, but they do not make enough to afford a home, this may not be true for the 10% who are chronically homeless but is true for most who are less visable.

[smitty9879]

They need accountability and people to come build community with them. They should work for every thing they get for free (shelter, clothes, food, etc). People daily come and give them food, and actually many just give food or money out of their car window without saying a word to them. They need relationships, discipleship, training. The free food and other things keep them in their homelessness. But most of all they need Jesus, who can heal the fact they have been pushed down!

[smitty9879]

Hi, thanks for the video!. I'm not sure who did the research for the video's comments, but I don't think the truth got out.  I volunteer/live next to the homeless population and see them every day. There are a very small few that work at all (some work a day a week, I haven't met any who work full time). Yet your video said they do. The problem is they have been pushed down/enabled by people who think they are helping by feeding/or give clothing when they really don't need food or clothes.