On a windy November day, Anvis Aryavong set out to offer housing and addiction treatment services to the unhoused.
Aryavong, program manager of street outreach at Agate Housing and Services, a Minneapolis nonprofit formed in 2021 from the merger of St. Stephen’s Human Services and House of Charity, gathered hygiene kits, bottled water, Narcan and pamphlets with information on housing services — standard items for an outreach day.
As someone with lived experience of homelessness, Aryavong has an informed sense of what the city’s transient unsheltered population needs…