Cumberland County Expands Search for Proposed Unhoused Support Center
Cumberland County commissioners are expanding their search for a location for a proposed Unhoused Support Center and are also prioritizing more emergency shelter beds in the near term. The decision was made by the County Board of Commissioners in Fayetteville,…
Raleigh Durham, NC, October 26, 2026 —
Cumberland County commissioners are widening the search for a site for a proposed Unhoused Support Center while placing greater near-term priority on adding emergency shelter beds. The County Board of Commissioners made the decision in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The two priorities address different time frames: the county is continuing to look for a location for the proposed center while focusing in the nearer term on expanding shelter capacity. The available information does not specify how many additional beds commissioners are seeking or when they could become available.
Details about the center’s planned services, operating model, funding, potential sites and development schedule were not provided. The county’s search for a location is being expanded, but no candidate locations or criteria for choosing a site were identified in the information available.
The decision does not establish when a site will be selected or whether the proposed center has received approvals or funding. Those details were not provided. It is also unclear whether the near-term shelter-bed priority is part of the center proposal or a separate county effort.
For now, the reported action is limited to the commissioners’ stated priorities: broaden the location search for the proposed Unhoused Support Center and give more emergency shelter beds greater urgency. Further information about implementation, resources and timelines was not included.
Story summarized from the original created by Justin Moore on www.cbs17.com, see more information here.
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