Members of the Bismarck community participate in a “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” event on Nov. 18, tracing a route many homeless people take during the daytime when no shelters are open in the capitol. The event was put on by the Missouri Slope Areawide United Way. Photo, Michael Standaert.
Inside the Center for Opportunity shelter operated by the Missouri Slope Areawide United Way, members of the homeless community were able to get out of the cold and use computers and other services that might help them return to being housed. Prior to March 1 of this year, the center was open 24/7, but current funding only allows it to be open from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. each day now.
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Housing insecurity, evictions rise as prices climb and assistance dwindlesA newly reorganized N.D. Interagency Council on Homelessness could have an early crisis on its hands because of significant changes to federal homelessness funding.A Nov. 13 directive issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) signaled a funding shift away from long-term permanent h...
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