Before the FIFA World Cup started in June, a growing organization offering services to the homeless announced plans to expand its operations into a new home in northeast Kansas City.
That is, after first running it as a European-style hostel for World Cup guests.
The plan by Open Doors Foundation, which works to provide low-barrier shelter and other services like job and transportation support to people experiencing homelessness to help them rebuild, was aimed at taking advantage of the flood of World Cup visitors to raise funds that would help support and build its work…