Melissa Painter

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Melissa Painter

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — In 2018, Five young children died after a fire broke out overnight in their apartment in Greensboro. Investigators say the smoke alarm was not working. Since then, the Greensboro Fire Department tells us there have many other apartment complex fires that have taken people’s homes from them where there were no smoke alarms. Matt Groseclose with GFD said, “We’ve taken a look at the data over the last four years.

2 months ago | myfox8.com | Melissa Painter

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — In Part I of this series, we discussed the nature of the growing issue of homelessness in the Piedmont Triad. Now in Part II, we discuss what is being done to help the homeless. Dr. Latonya Agard is the director of the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness. She told FOX8, “the homelessness problem is a housing problem. We just don’t have enough affordable housing.”Our largest cities are trying to provide that housing.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Melissa Painter

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — In Part I of this series, we discussed the nature of the growing issue of homelessness in the Piedmont Triad. Now in Part II, we discuss what is being done to help the homeless. Dr. Latonya Agard is the director of the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness. She told FOX8, “the homelessness problem is a housing problem.

2 months ago | myfox8.com | Melissa Painter

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — The growing issue of homelessness in North Carolina is documented. Each year, housing and shelter organizations take a count of people in their communities who are unhoused. It’s called the point-in-time count. Federal funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development is tied to that number. In the most recent figures statewide, the 2024 point-in-time count found 11,626 homeless people. 2,070 of them were children.

Dec 12, 2024 | myfox8.com | Melissa Painter

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