COLUMBUS, Ohio — As temperatures drop, people removed from the homeless camps Columbus shut down last year are preparing to spend another winter outside.
What You Need To Know
- A year after Columbus cleared several homeless camps, many people who were removed are still living outside and bracing for another winter
- Outreach worker Sandy Bonneville says there are now more unsheltered people on the streets, including more young people, and many avoided shelters to stay with their belongings and pets
- The city says the camp closures were about safety and connecting people to housing, but people like Vickie Hanson say they’re still being moved around and struggling to find a stable place to stay
Outreach worker Sandy Bonneville has been making her rounds for years, checking on people she says have been in disarray since the closures.
“There’s a lot of people just on the streets that are hungry. We’ve got meals. We’ve got hats and gloves,” said Sandy Bonneville with Take it to the Street Ministry…