Three years ago, Asheville pledged to cut homelessness in half, but little has changed • Asheville Watchdog

Three years ago, Asheville pledged to cut homelessness in half, but little has changed • Asheville Watchdog

Three years ago, the City of Asheville paid a consultant $73,000 to issue recommendations and a report on how to combat homelessness. The National Alliance to End Homelessness developed a plan to reduce the unsheltered homeless population – which stood at 232 people – by 50 percent in two years. The plan called for overhauling the city’s current system for helping the homeless and creating a new low-barrier shelter. Neither recommendation came t…