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Sandy Hausman reports.
Eboni Bugg is director of programs for the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. “This particular project really was instigated by the urgency of the global pandemic, recognizing that our current system of grouped shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness presented a public health risk even beyond the public health risks associated with homelessness itself.”
So the foundation offered the largest grant in its history $4.25 million – to the Piedmont Housing Alliance which bought an old Red Carpet Inn on the city’s busy Route 29 where Bugg says studio apartments will be offered.
A coalition of non-profits in Charlottesville plans to build on the site of an old hotel, gradually replacing its rooms with 140 apartments for people experiencing homelessness.