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From "Dark and Dank" to Campus 2.0
Reflections from the front lines serving people experiencing homelessness, at the end of another Summer, celebrating milestones, and adapting through construction.
We are officially on the other side of the hottest months of the year. There is a decrease in temperature that is felt in the air before the sun rises. Shadows are lengthened on the sidewalks and on the streets. Some folks are already excited for Halloween and are planning, decorating, and creating festivity. Closure every year on Summer is a milestone.
Nearly 900 people are sleeping in three shelter spaces on Key Campus. And this week the Keys to Change Street Outreach team counted 108 unsheltered people in the immediate neighborhood. In the expanded area, an additional 288 people were found unsheltered. The total is trending downward. We are not certain why, and we will keep counting, monitoring, and reporting. No celebrating on this front quite yet.
In September we quietly celebrated the move of our administrative offices into a renovated building. For many years, more than ten, this building was open for homeless men to sleep in. The building was dilapidated, unhealthy, and yet was used as an indoor overflow shelter referred to as the MOS (Men's Overflow Shelter)...read more here...
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