When city leaders moved 51 households out of the Lamplighter Inn and into other hotels in December, paying for a 30-day stay, the goal was to make sure each could find a place to live long term.
Several of those households are now in permanent housing, said Tara Peele, the president and CEO of Housing Collaborative, a nonprofit working with the city on its plan to help.
Housing Collaborative is working with 13 former Lamplighter households, Peele said. The city closed the west Charlotte hotel, where people on the cusp of homelessness were living, because city officials found conditions unsafe…