SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WECT) – Colder temperatures are moving in this weekend, leaving many in Brunswick County without a safe place to stay.
Brunswick Partnership for Housing, a nonprofit that advocates for the unhoused received a $40,000 grant.
But executive director Sally Learned said that while the grant is helpful, the unhoused community in the county is becoming a growing problem that many don’t want to talk about— as more and more unhoused working families are forced to sleep in their cars because they have nowhere else to go.
“To be able to rent an apartment in Brunswick County, you need an income that is three times the cost of the rent,” said Learned. “You need clean credit and no criminal background history. So for all of those things to work for people, especially after COVID, it’s really hard.”
Learned said that the grant money will help keep their transitional home running for families as finding a permanent shelter has become increasingly difficult.
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