PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – With wind chills expected to drop into the single digits Sunday,non-profit organizations and churches across Hampton Roads are working diligently to provide safe, warm shelter for the homeless population.
Darlene Washington, executive director of Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless, said her organization is seeing an increase in need.
“During the colder months, people who thought they could weather it out in their cars or might have been doubled up at someone else’s home are now finding those situations a little bit more tenuous,” Washington said on Sunday while working at the site of their day program at 800 Williamsburg Avenue…