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Community leaders at a forum in Tampa this week said the affordable housing crisis is making it harder for them to help people experiencing homelessness. And they expect the number of people in need to grow.
For Tampa s homeless, small cottages could give hope for a better future – Catholic World Report catholicworldreport.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from catholicworldreport.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The opening of Tampa Hope, an emergency homeless shelter of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Tampa, Fla., Dec. 13, 2021. / Courtesy of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. PetersburgSt. Petersburg, Fla., Dec 23, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).A new housing complex of small cottages and tents aims to help several hundred homeless people in Tampa, in a project launched by Catholic Charities with help from the City of Tampa."Homeless folks are not anybody to be afraid of, they re just people who fell on bad times," Danielle Husband, senior director of programs at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, told CNA Dec. 15. "They re people. They come with all sorts of challenges but they come with all sorts of strengths. They all have their own story.""Some of the folks are brand-new homeless. Their jobs were cut, like in the service industry, and all of that stopped for such a long period of time," she said.Others come from ou