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I interviewed Miss Betty on the porch of her home in the Oak Hollow transitional housing complex. Her disabilities are severe. Tomorrow her son is having brain surgery for a malignancy. But she is able to manage her very challenging life from a stable home base. Because she has a home she has been able to keep her granddaughter, Brianna, out of the foster care system and give her a brighter future

I had the pleasure of meeting with the coalition of public, private and non-profit organizations that have a ten year plan to end homelessness in Wake County. They are four years in to it and confident that they will succeed. The issues are complex and layered, as we know, but addressable. They believe their secret sauce is collaboration. This was a very impressive and knowledgeable group of people. I left the gathering inspired.