Community leaders tell council homelessness is on the rise in Toledo

West Toledo resident Trish Kwapich doesn’t want people thinking her family didn’t care for her brother who died Nov. 30.

Richard Kwapich IV was found, covered in snow, behind a building in the UpTown district. He died from hypothermia.

“[Richard’s] homelessness was not a result of a failed family or anything of the sort,” Ms. Kwapich told a Toledo City Council committee on homelessness. “Rick had a hard time.”…

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