A rumor had been circulating in the community that St. Cloud State was readying unused dorms to house the homeless population. The rumor is not true according to St. Cloud State University President Dr. Robbyn Wacker.
The Lincoln Center is a homeless shelter on the southeast side of St. Cloud. They want to increase their overnight capacity limit. Tonight the Zoning Board of Appeals will hear a request from Homeless Helping Homeless which runs the Lincoln Center on Lincoln Avenue to amend a Conditional Use Permit.
The city of Minneapolis has picked a temporary site for hundreds of homeless people who have been living in tents at an encampment just south of downtown.