Reno updates pilot rapid‑rehousing program at Village on Sage; city reports early success and lower per‑person cost than emergency placements

City staff, Volunteers of America and the Reno Housing Authority presented a one‑year update on the City of Reno’s rapid‑rehousing pilot, a two‑year program that temporarily houses single adults at Village on Sage with service coordination while they await permanent subsidized housing.

Elaine Wiseman, director of Housing and Neighborhood Development, said the program was established after city outreach identified people who are homeless, have some income, and were already on subsidized housing waiting lists but repeatedly fell back into homelessness while awaiting placement. The pilot uses Village on Sage’s month‑to‑month dorm‑style units to stabilize participants while Volunteers of America provides case management and the…