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Asheville staff outline three-part COC response ahead of point-in-time count; volunteers sought
Summary
City staff and the Continuum of Care briefed council on the Jan. point‑in‑time count and a three‑part response to increased unsheltered homelessness in West Asheville: nightly winter shelter (50 added beds), expanded street outreach using $222,000 in city ARPA funds, and stepped‑up needle response and sharps containers.
City staff on Thursday described preparations for the Asheville–Buncombe Continuum of Care’s (COC) annual point‑in‑time (PIT) count and a three‑part local response to rising unsheltered homelessness in West Asheville.
Emily Ball told the council the PIT is a federally required single‑night census for the COC geography that takes place during the last 10 days of January and combines HMIS program data with volunteer surveys for unsheltered counts. "Point in time count is happening in a couple weeks," Ball said, describing volunteer signups that now let people pick specific geographies and teams and stressing that survey responses are voluntary and de‑identified for reporting to the COC and HUD.
Ball and staff outlined three COC board strategies that have already been deployed to…
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