There are high hopes in Asheville for two former hotels converted into permanent housing for the chronically unhoused. The first of them up and running is Compass Point Village, developed and managed by the Asheville nonprofit Homeward Bound. The second, due to open in mid-2024, is a private, for-profit development that will convert a former Days Inn into a 115-unit complex called Step Up.
   
Today's guests are David Nash, the interim executive director; and Jenny Moffat, permanent supportive housing director, of Homeward Bound. We talk about the path that led to conceiving and developing Compass Point Village and the range of support available to Compass Point’s residents. We also get into how, even with these projects, Asheville’s affordable housing crisis will continue adding people to the rolls of the unhoused.

This is the second part of a series of episodes this week focusing on housing Asheville's chronically unhoused.

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