A community group has begun providing free lunch monthly for the unhoused in Albany. WAMC sat down with some of the attendees and has this report.
On a blazing, 90-degree day, cold water, fresh fruit, sandwiches, and snacks are being shared in a small park along the Hudson River. For the second time in as many months, the Albany chapter of the National Union of the Homeless is hosting lunch at Jennings Landing.
Wearing shorts, a black Snoop Dawg T-shirt, and a backward hat over a pink hand towel, Richard Johnson says he recently secured housing after going without for three years. During his time living behind the state Legislative Office Building, Johnson was once struck by a car while he was asleep…