Cincinnati Public Schools is the first school district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars.
Cincinnati’s Safe Sleep Lot opened April 30 at William Howard Taft Elementary School and more than 300 people have slept in the lot so far, said Megan Rahill, shelter and housing specialist with Project Connect.
“A lot of times, when you’re sleeping in your car, it’s because you’ve exhausted all your social avenues of people you can stay with, and so they’re often feeling so isolated and like nobody cares anymore, and they’re on their own,” Rahill said…