Community Challenges

Homelessness and Housing in Wake County

Here are a few facts highlighting the enormous challenges we face in our community:

86%         Increase in Wake student homelessness in the last 10 years.

225%       Increase in Wake students living in motels in last 4 years.

6,000+     Estimated number of Wake children and youth that will go homeless this year.

17,000     Number of rental units needed to fill the gap for those considered “extremely low income”(less than $24,000 for a family of four in Wake).

2%            Amount out of nearly 500,000 rental units in Wake that are considered affordable and are not subsidized.

6,000       Number of publicly-assisted properties scheduled to expire in the next decade.

1,000       Number of affordable housing units Wake County loses every year.