While the privately funded Durham group TROSA produces results and continues its outstanding work helping hard core addicts and homeless turn their lives around, Durham government’s effort to end homelessness continues in disarray.

Read it and weep — for the federal taxpayers whose money is being wasted in this government effort, and for the homeless in Durham, who in many cases suffer from addictions and mental health problems for which they truly need intense help. Earlier this year an examination found Durham’s program to end homelessness a shambles and, based on this story, nothing has improved, and it’s clearly time to end this. (emphasis is mine)

This year, though, the city and county governments decided against renewing the housing coalition’s contract to manage the 10-Year Plan and Continuum of Care application. An independent study of the 10-Year Plan found it, four years after adoption, in a state of disarray and lacking leadership and accountability.

The city and county administrations presented a new management plan to elected officials last week. But Cole-McFadden, who heads the 10-Year Plan’s executive committee, objected and presented a proposal of her own.

“One of the things that bothers me is, we want to do the same thing the same way, no innovation, no creativity,” she said. The administration proposal was sent back to the city and county managers for further work.

Further work? How long will this government debacle be allowed to continue?