Interactive Resource Center

The IRC is a community center and day center for homeless people located on 407 E. Washington street. They provide everything from fundamental services such as showers, laundry, or a mailing address for example, to medical and mental health care, case management and employment services. They meet their guests needs where they are, gather the resources they need to gain shelter and help them create a new path forward.

“The IRC is on a mission to end homelessness. Every step of the way, we are driven by these essential beliefs and values”

The homeless union of greensboro meets at the IRC once a week. It was started by homeless and formerly homeless people in Greensboro attempting to fight anti-homeless legislation in Greensboro’s city council such as “anti-panhandling ordinances” which the homeless union asserts are unconstitutional. They and many of us, would rather see our homeless neighbors in clean warm environments and a solution to homelessness in the city being built up instead of tearing down the livelihood of some of our most vulnerable members of the community.

Lastly, Food Not Bombs meets at the IRC from november to march to provide free meals to the public. They get donations from grocery stores which otherwise would have been thrown away Their belief is that food is a right, not a privilege, and using the food that would have been thrown away illustrates the problems of relying on a purely market-based model to distribute resources within our communities.