CASA opens reduced rent apartments for Raleigh Veterans

With funding from US Department of Urban Development (HUD), Wake County and the City of Raleigh, CASA has provided homeless Veterans with new affordable housing opportunities.

CASA announced the opening of Sunnybrook Apartments, which house 10 Veterans who have previously struggled to find a permanent place to stay. Many stayed at the South Wilmington Street Men’s shelter or at Cornerstone. With this new facility, case managers now have a new place to permanently house our Veterans who may have up until now lived in homeless shelters or transitional housing.

Sunnybrook Apartments is just the first step, since CASA intends to open up additional facilities to provide long-term housing to Veterans living in our community. One will be located near Sunnybrook Apartments and another facility is expected to be opened in Durham.

Requirements for admission to one of these apartments vary slightly. Veterans must have been honorably discharged and must earn no more than 30-40% of the median income level for the area. Lower earning Veterans may have first dibs on upcoming vacancies.

With the opening of the facility, homeless Veterans now have new hope that they will one day have the stability and the resources to live out their lives in comfort and with dignity. Some are still paying the price of their service to our great nation as they carry emotional and physical scars from combat.

For information on these units as well as other transitional and permanent rental assistance programs, you may call CASA at 919-754-9960.