Housing & Homelessness

Spend time with organizations that work to create a strong safety net for people experiencing homelessness, develop sustainable solutions to the challenges of homelessness, and fight for decent affordable housing.

A Home On Campus

参与住房和无家可归问题区域的机会从这里开始，在我们自己的校园，你将与我们的沃伦威尔逊长老会教堂合作，在酒店的房间。“旅馆之屋”是一个为无家可归的女性提供的流动避难所，你将与那些在我们校园找到家的女性联系并共度一周的时间。

A Home Away From Home

Your engagement in housing and homelessness issues extends off-campus as well. Your off-campus opportunities might include experiences like:

  • AHOPE: Support the work of AHOPE day shelter by assisting with weekly tasks
  • Habitat for Humanity: Participate over break with a sports team engaging in a regional build or work with a work crew for a one day local build
  • Beloved Community: Engage with a local intentional community working to build resources for people experiencing poverty and homelessness

While you make your home at Warren Wilson, you will actively seek ways to help others find theirs.

Gimme Shelter

Creative writing alumnus and staff writer for local newspaper Mountain Xpress, Max Hunt ’11 brings attention to the housing crisis in Asheville. At Wilson, Max participated in a Housing Insecurity service project and workshop, where he worked closely with several local agencies and the homeless population.

beds
Work Day

Community Partner: Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound is a nonprofit agency working that ends homelessness by moving people into permanent housing and providing the support that they need to stay there. Homeward Bound began in 1988 as Hospitality House. In 2006, Hospitality House became Homeward Bound of WNC, and shifted its focus from managing homelessness with shelter to ending homelessness with permanent housing, utilizing the best practice model of Housing First.

Food plate

Taking Initiative

2010年SWK的学生与阿什维尔贫困倡议组织合作，推动了“贫困现实”活动。该活动激发了与Buncombe县和Warren Wilson学院社区关于当地贫困的对话，并强调了贫困的现实，以帮助消除生活在贫困中的污名。葡萄牙韩国足球断交活动结束后，大家一起吃了一顿免费的午餐，并就下一步行动进行了集体反思。