This week the city of Asheville pulled the plug on a long-awaited project to convert a motel into housing for people experiencing homelessness. The move came after the partner organizations managing the project were named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Winston-Salem has been attached to a similar project with the same partners since 2022. And city leaders say that partnership stands, despite repeated delays.
Last Sunday nearly 100 people sat in the same pews that were occupied at St. Philips Moravian Church more than 150 years ago, when the enslaved people of Salem received word that they were free.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina is launching an effort to bring in food donations and provide 25,000 meals to area residents. This comes as the nonprofit is preparing to move to a new space. The facility will have additional capacity and the provisions raised at the “Stock the Food Bank with the East Ward” initiative will help fill the shelves.
Winston-Salem’s City Council is moving forward with plans to build more affordable housing units. Council agreed to pay experts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Government to help city staff take initial steps to build more affordable housing on two plots of land one five-acre lot already owned by the city and another 34-acre plot that it’s considering buying.