Over the past seven months, taxpayers in Wheeling have spent $87,846.11 to clean up sites around town that had been used as homeless encampments. That’s more than the majority of the city’s households earn in an average year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s nearly on par with what most city department heads earn […]
WHEELING As Wheeling’s homeless have taken up residence at the exempted campsite near the maintenance trail along Wheeling Creek, city officials have rele
Last month, the city of Wheeling moved all homeless camps to one centralized location along Maintenance Trail.According to the city manager's office, it cost ta
The cost of cleanups at previous homeless camps around the city of Wheeling cost taxpayers nearly $90,000, city officials announced Tuesday. In a release, the city said that cleanups that occurred between September 2023 and April 2024 cost a total of $87,846.11. That includes the cleanup of individual sites that existed prior to and after […]
Read the statement from homeless service providers to the City of Wheeling here. 2024.1.23 Service Provider Statement WHEELING – Volunteers could be seen Wednesday morning cleaning around the outskirts of the East Wheeling parking lot that will become the exempted site for homeless individuals in the city. They picked up trash, raked out mulch and […]