Rock Hill

With a broader use of a phone-based survey, homeless services providers in Rock Hill are hoping expanded (and faster) data can help the city craft more effective programs, end to end.

The PIT count happens at the end of every January, across the country. With expanded questions and a growing focus on homelessness, cities like Rock Hill and Columbia want their data to yield new ways to combat an escalating problem.

A surprise hailstorm devastated parts of Rock Hill in April. Eight months later, most of the Southside neighborhood that got the worst of it is doing better. But that's not true for everyone.

A workshop for writers facing homelessness turned into a regular weekly event, and eventually a Thanksgiving feast celebrating a community that found itself building an extended family.

While some residents experiencing homelessness can't turn away from voting quickly enough, others are eager to cast their first ballot, in hopes that their voices will have an effect on democracy.

The contentious fallout over what was to be a near-billion-dollar sports and entertainment center in Rock Hill saw another door closed in a letter from the Attorney General's Office.

In the third part of our three-part look at Rock Hill's Rapid Rehousing Program, we meet a pair of landlords willing to take a chance on those eager to get themselves off the streets.

In the second of our three-part look at Rock Hill's Rapid Rehousing Program, meet some tenants who are halfway through their year, and how far they've come in that time.

In the first of our three-part look at Rock Hill's Rapid Rehousing Program, we hear about advocates' ambitious hope to redirect the lives of unsheltered people in the city.

“R” is for Rock Hill (York County; 2020 population 74,157). Rock Hill began in 1852 as a depot and watering station on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad—and it had a post office.