Kansas City Homeless Already Crowding Local Shelters At Outset Of Cold Weather

A glimpse at growing demand and how locals are struggling to meet the challenge of rising American scarcity, hopelessness and desperation . . . Check-it:

"Outside the Hope Faith shelter, which is right off Virginia Avenue, there was already a line of people outside waiting to get in an hour before they opened on Friday. Volunteers emphasized how dangerous it gets for people without a home when the temperature drops and how widespread of a problem homelessness is in Kansas City this time of year . . .

Hope Faith is just one of 10 places across Kansas City opening up to allow 125 men to stay the night. But the organization is prepared to handle extra."

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