Greenville Together launches housing surge for homelessness
- Charles Reams
- Jul 10
- 1 min read
Greenville Together: A Home for All aims to help 80 people experiencing homelessness find housing by the end of the year.
The community-driven effort recently launched a housing surge to rapidly rehouse unsheltered individuals within the city of Greenville. Greenville Together announced the successful rehousing of the program’s first participant on July 7.
According to Greenville Together, the former unsheltered individual spent the past two years living in a tent within the city. The individual moved into a new apartment on Monday following a referral submitted on June 30.
“This is more than just one person finding a home – it’s proof the system we’ve built is working,” said Cody Carver, director of Greenville Together. “This early win is a direct result of the dedication, alignment, and compassion shown by every organization involved in Greenville Together.”
Several avenues will be used to complete the housing surge, including a “street-to-home approach” that moves chronically homeless and medically fragile individuals directly into permanent supportive housing. The program’s participants will receive support services to help them stabilize.
“This is only the beginning,” said Heather Gatchell, director of Greenville Together’s housing surge program. “Our team is thrilled to be part of this process that offers the dignity of housing and also demonstrates a new model for reducing homelessness in our community.”
For more information, visit greenvilletogether.org.
Upcoming event
Greenville Together will host its second community conversations event on July 31 at the Prisma Health Welcome Center in Greenville’s Unity Park. The event will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
