Men's Shelter

500 Beds!

Charlotte is experiencing a homelessness crisis. More people are becoming homeless, remaining homeless longer, and struggling to find shelter. There are well over 6,000 homeless citizens in Charlotte on any given day and most of them are men. Charlotte has long struggled to provide enough emergency shelter for men to meet the growing demands. The Men’s Shelter of Charlotte has adopted a vision to increase the year round shelter capacity for men to 500 Beds! Currently, the Men’s Shelter provides 500 beds during the winter months only at its two shelter campuses. The remainder of the year there has been less than 300 beds available for homeless men. Last winter we averaged over 500 men per night – those men were still homeless come summer, but we did not have the capacity to provide shelter to all. This will change as the Men’s Shelter implements our 500 Bed Plan. Although today this is a vision, by late spring (2010) we intend to announce plans to make it a reality. Please check back for more information.

The Magic of the Merger

On October 1, 2009, the Emergency Winter Shelter and Uptown Shelter merged to become Men’s Shelter of Charlotte. Our goal is to be the safety net for homeless men by identifying and filling service gaps, ensuring an adequate supply of emergency shelter beds, and offering a continuum of supportive services that help men move beyond homelessness.

To learn more about our past and our future please click on the following links.

past

future

View at the Statesville Ave Campus as we celebrated the beginning of a new vision for helping homeless men.