Va. Red Carpet Inn purchased to ease homelessness

A Red Carpet Inn in Charlottesville, Va., found a buyer recently — not a company but rather a coalition of local nonprofits that will use the property to house and otherwise assist homeless people whose plight has been worsened by the pandemic. “The strange silver lining of the COVID era is that it has brought new resources” to the problem of homelessness, says Sunshine Mathon of the Piedmont Housing Alliance, which received a $4.25 million grant for the purchase.