VIDEO: Homeless report to City Council

Key video excerpts from Monday's City Council report on homelessness

It's been about a year since the last report to City Council about homelessness, which you can read about here, and it’s still a growing problem that has no immediate solution. I’ve tried something a little different here, providing key video excerpts from the report, as these things tend to be meandering and hard to sit through. Enjoy!

Shayla Washington, executive director of the Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless, presents data about the number of people experiencing homelessness in our area…and how important Premiere Circle on Route29 was while it was open. "Now that Premier Circle is gone we're trying to figure out where people are...and they're kind of scattered all over the city and the urban ring of Albemarle,” said Washington: