BUFFALO, N.Y. — On any given night in Buffalo, hundreds of people have no safe place to sleep. Rising rents, a shortage of affordable housing, job loss, illness, and mental health crises have pushed more Western New Yorkers into homelessness — many of them just one emergency away from losing everything.
Inside the Buffalo City Mission, that reality is met not just with beds and meals, but with something equally powerful: compassion.
From the city’s Code Blue shelter to emergency housing and long-term transitional programs, the Mission serves people at every stage of crisis. And behind that work are people like Amanda Wolanske and Marilyn Forcucci — leaders whose service goes far beyond their job titles…