With a March deadline for the shelter residents at East Asheville’s Ramada Inn bearing down, shelter director Ashley Lung is braced for the worst.

After the city of Asheville in December canceled plans to convert the Ramada Inn on River Ford Parkway into a high-access emergency shelter, it has put the about 75 residents who have been living there since April in a scramble for housing.

Lung works for Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness, the nonprofit charged with overseeing the Ramada and its residents, and said she is dreading the day she has to tell the residents that it is “time to go.”

“It’s just really difficult,” she said. “And the reality of the situation is that come March 31, they could be back out in tents on the street.”

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