DES MOINES, Iowa — The Polk County Board of Supervisors and Des Moines City Council are investing over $2 million in an affordable housing project specifically for women.
The funding will expand The Beacon Village, a complex that opened last year at an old motel in northeast Des Moines, off of Euclid Avenue.
Aleah Howard had been living on the streets for 15 years when she moved into The Beacon Village…