KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) – Joshua Yoakum knows what it is like to need a place to stay. He says he has experienced homelessness himself, and now he and his wife open their home to others who need help.
“Our house is a homeless shelter most of the time,” Yoakum said. “Normally we have one to two people living with us that, if they weren’t staying with us, they’d be on the street.”
But when Wyandotte County voters considered a sales tax increase intended to fund health and homelessness services, Yoakum said he worried about what the additional cost would mean for his own family…