Housing crisis impacts NC prison reentry programs

Housing crisis impacts NC prison reentry programs

More than 1 in 4 people who left North Carolina prisons in 2024 were released to homelessness, according to a reentry housing assessment. The assessment identified someone as homeless if they had no verified home plan, self-reported as homeless, provided an intersection address or went to a shelter or temporary housing placement. Of the nearly 20,000 people who exited one of the state’s prisons last year, 5,610 people — or 28 percent — were iden…