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.
On Wednesday hundreds of volunteers will spread out across the state in an attempt to count as many homeless people as possible. The Point-In-Time Count happens every year in Minnesota.
Thousands of people in the Twin Cities have been
homeless for years, despite a coordinated effort by city, state and nonprofit
leaders that has cut chronic homelessness nearly in half since 2010.
Two local couples are pledging to match up to ten-thousand dollars each to the Local Education Activities Fund for their homeless student services fund for March and April.