NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — With temperatures feeling like the triple digits, Hampton Roads’ homeless population is seeking shade and shelter as extreme heat hammers down on the area.
Union Mission Ministries is among shelters running low on space to help the growing homeless population. According to Senior Director of Development Helen Hayes Sommer, the shelter is seeing roughly 200 people a day.
“The demand for housing and the number of people that are unhoused right now is just very high,” she said. “We have men, women and children in emergency shelter and then also transitional housing.”…