As the Nevada Cares Campus staggers its opening, it’s been a scramble for those inside to get into housing, and for volunteers trying to help them. We’ve heard from one elderly man desperately trying to get out his bunk bed and into the new legal safe camp on site. He might have to wait until they expand from the current pilot phase of 44 tents to a planned 100 in a few months, as the initial list, he’s been told, is already full. He has a case manager but says he only gets to meet with her once a week. Outside the compound, he’s trying to get into either the Hope Springs bridge housing community, but he’s heard the next two available spots there are for women, or into the Village on Sage Street, but it seems full there as well, as he’s been waiting for weeks with no satisfying answer. Meanwhile, he says he’s been on the Reno Housing Authority waiting list for two years and counting now.
The Scramble at the Campus
The Scramble at the Campus
The Scramble at the Campus
As the Nevada Cares Campus staggers its opening, it’s been a scramble for those inside to get into housing, and for volunteers trying to help them. We’ve heard from one elderly man desperately trying to get out his bunk bed and into the new legal safe camp on site. He might have to wait until they expand from the current pilot phase of 44 tents to a planned 100 in a few months, as the initial list, he’s been told, is already full. He has a case manager but says he only gets to meet with her once a week. Outside the compound, he’s trying to get into either the Hope Springs bridge housing community, but he’s heard the next two available spots there are for women, or into the Village on Sage Street, but it seems full there as well, as he’s been waiting for weeks with no satisfying answer. Meanwhile, he says he’s been on the Reno Housing Authority waiting list for two years and counting now.