FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Advocates from United Way and FM Coalition to End Homelessness have reached the thirty-day mark and identified the key factors of their plans to end homelessness. Objectives for the first benchmark included finding key partners, financial resources and to establish an advisory group. They founded a committee of fourteen organizations, including Churches United, Fargo VA, YWCA…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Over the past year, the concerns of homelessness have been a rising concern for many in the Fargo and Moorhead community. Nationally in the past year homelessness has increased by 18 percent. “Homelessness has been on the rise in our community. It is actually in fact reaching crisis levels and especially with a region like ours…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney says the city will take a step back and play a more supportive role to end homelessness. FM Coalition to End Homelessness and United Way of Cass Clay presented a plan for the next 30, 60 and 90 days to reduce the number of people who are homeless. They will count on…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — For people experiencing homelessness, the brutal winters in Fargo can be deadly. Now the city has a new warming center to stay warm. It is located at 1230 25th Street South, in the space formerly occupied by the Fargo Police Department and on the far west side of the main Fargo Cass Public Health building, and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The conference entitled “The Pulse of Homelessness” was sponsored by the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo Chamber of Commerce. Panelists discussed how the community has been addressing homelessness and the next steps that need to be taken. “No community in the nation has been able to decrease the number of people experiencing homelessness through criminalizing homelessness as their only…
