NOTE: This story was originally published on the Oviedo Community News website
Jan. 29 was a pivotal day in Rodney’s life.
He was at the corner of State Road 434 and U.S. Highway 17-92 in Longwood, just outside the border of Winter Springs, when workers doing an annual count of the nation’s homeless population interviewed him. He told volunteers he had been homeless since 2019 and that his issues started after getting hit as a pedestrian by a vehicle…