CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – City Manager Sam Sanders Monday evening proposed a new low-barrier shelter solution the city’s been seeking for months, as well as proposed a contribution to the Salvation Army’s new Center of Hope. And the Salvation Army is willing to give up its Cherry Avenue thrift store space for the city to build a 50-bed low-barrier shelter space.
“We need more of what the Salvation Army is doing, and that is why I think it’s important to figure that out”, Sanders said.
“What the Salvation Army has also done, and what Major Mark Van Meter has done is share with me is ‘I appreciate what you’re talking about in the low barrier shelter space’ and he had an idea, and that idea is what I’ve been focused on every since.”…