Leaders advocate for the homeless

Effort underway to get state funding for more shelters

Or agitated ?

"* lose consciousness ?

"* or are unable tonight, mayor kim norton and other state leaders are calling on the legislature to provide 25?

"* million in bondig dollars to preserve and expand homeless shelters across the state.

Kimt news 3's isabella basco hit the streets and discovered the desperate need for a 24/7 permanent shelter in the med city.

Isabella?

Well ?

"* there are only two emergency shelters in rochester ?

"* dorothy day and the rochester community warming center ?

"* here on 4th street.

Both provide 15 beds but the county estimates there are 123 unsheltered people.

I spoke with one of them today.

"how did i end up at dorothy day?

Mistakes but i haven't had a drink, well august 22nd will be 30 years."

Michael gates spends his days at the mayo civic center day center ?*- and spends nights at dorothy day hospitality house.

He doesn't mince words when it comes to the hardships of homelessness.

"what it's like is being scared most of the time, being anxious, being suicidal, i would think anybody that is actually homeless goes through those thoughts."

Alex hurlebaus is the director of social services for the landing mn inc.

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"* a non?

"* profit that helps people in need.

He believes it is humanity's duty to help those most vulnerable.

"they can't go without that voice, they can't go without somebody standing up for them.

We need that, you take a walk in this city, you see people struggling, you see people with no where to go at night, that doesn't feel acceptable.

I feel like we could always be improving if that's what we're seeing."

Hurlebaus has been to big cities around the country ?

"* where homelessness has gotten out of hand.

"what we don't want is to become that.

We want to help people while it's still a manageable situation, while it's still something we can do."

Hurlebaus is of the belief that giving shelter to someone in need isn't just the charitable thing to do ?

"* it's the right thing to do.

"we could be doing more, if anybody is going without a place to sleep at night, while the overnight program at the civic center closed this week... the day program will stay open until further notice... depending on when the rochester public library reopens.

Live in rochester ib kimt news 3.

Thank you isabella.

Olmsted county did open two new spaces?

"* a 12?

"* unit facili and a 15?

"*unit facility.

They serve as transitional housing for