Reply #151: You are exactly right

[Terran]

Homelessness is a problem in rural and small town areas as well as large urban centers. Here in Missouri, the northwest section of the state is sparsely populated, but there is still a need to serve homeless people in those areas, who mostly live in campgrounds in tents. We're lucky, in some counties, to have even a single social service agency, much less any actual shelters. There are many many counties that do not have a single shelter, just one or two agencies that do preventative services. There are huge gaps in filling the needs of homeless people, but if the federal government would only do better at funding these agencies (the HUD funding process is absolutely insane), there would be far far fewer people without a place to live.

Dirk