WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The City of Wichita announced Friday that it secured apartments for 10 homeless seniors ahead of the new year.
On Facebook, the city said a team identified more than 20 unoccupied apartments at the Greenway Manor senior housing complex.
After meeting with the seniors, the city moved them from the emergency shelter into an apartment of their own.
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“Wherever they’re coming from, whether it’s unsheltered or they’re coming from a shelter, self-sufficiency requires them to have their own space,” Steve Burt, the city’s assistant director of housing services, said in a video on YouTube…