Food & ShelterPress Room
ASHEVILLE – The view out the playroom windows, overtop plastic play kitchens, colorful bean bags and stray dolls, is of an empty, expansive field. Demarcated by a black chain link fence, it is the remaining, and majority, acreage of Transformation Village’s 24-acre campus.
The existing building provides 100 transitional housing beds to women and children experiencing homelessness in Buncombe, Asheville and surrounding counties. The planned expansion, which ABCCM executive director Scott Rogers sketched out atop the scrubby grass of the rain-sodden field, is slated to bring 128 more beds in a new 64-unit building.
It’s one piece of $30 million in shelter and housing expansions planned across the next two years, Rogers said.
