Gun violence Roanoke Seeks Community Help As City Tackles Crisis Worsened By Pandemic: Gun Violence. Roanoke has seen an uptick in shootings over the last year, even higher than in 2020, when effects from the pandemic fueled a nationwide rise in violence.
Homelessness Vulnerable in the Valley: Portrait of Homelessness in Roanoke Area Reveals Pandemic's Impact There are four types of homelessness: chronic, episodic, transitional, and hidden. The pandemic has exacerbated all four.
Neighborhoods A Tale of Two Roanokes? Some Neighborhoods See Explosive Growth, Others A Declining Population, Data Show Last year, Roanoke inched above 100,000 in population for the first time in forty years. But not all that growth is spread evenly across the city.
Neighborhoods On the Future of Gainsboro Tensions over whether and how the neighborhood should change, cross generational, racial and class lines.
Food Access Could a Grocery Store Come to Northwest Roanoke? Residents Have Been Waiting 25 Years. Establishing a grocery store in Northwest Roanoke has emerged as a top contender for some of the $64.5 million in federal coronavirus relief funds allocated to the city.
