As he led those gathered for the Homeless Memorial in prayer, Rev. E. Regis Bunch called the need for the annual gathering an indictment of the “apathy that allows our folks to freeze in the shadow of luxury developments.”
“We refuse to accept the lie that poverty is an accident or that homelessness is a force of nature,” Bunch said Monday afternoon.
He also had a call to action, asking if everyone in the packed meeting room had picked up one of the handouts that described looming cuts to federal funding for housing programs on one side and the phone numbers of Ohio’s U.S. senator on the other…