A soon-to-be decommissioned military reserve center near Wilmington's Greenfield Lake may eventually become transitional homeless housing, over the city's objections.
Federal law allows local governments to decide how best to develop surplus military property. But it also requires that homeless services get first consideration unless the city doesn't have a homeless problem or there are more pressing local economic needs.
Wilmington officials last year decided the facility isn't needed for the homeless but the federal government isn't so sure, accusing the city of 'inconsistent reasoning'...
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Federal law allows local governments to decide how best to develop surplus military property. But it also requires that homeless services get first consideration unless the city doesn't have a homeless problem or there are more pressing local economic needs.
Wilmington officials last year decided the facility isn't needed for the homeless but the federal government isn't so sure, accusing the city of 'inconsistent reasoning'...
Read the entire story here.
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