The extreme cold weather is bringing more homeless people in Louisville into area shelters.
Nina Mosely with Wayside Christian Mission says the shelter on Jefferson Street is over capacity.
The extreme cold weather is bringing more homeless people in Louisville into area shelters.
Nina Mosely with Wayside Christian Mission says the shelter on Jefferson Street is over capacity.
The regulations address a gap in zoning laws that neither prohibited nor allowed a shelter to be built downtown. The regulations define zoning for three types of buildings that serve the homeless, and would allow shelters downtown.
Wayside Christian Mission may legally be able to operate a homeless shelter in downtown Louisville by the end of the summer.
Negotiations have ended between Wayside Christian Mission and the Jefferson Community and Technical College.
Louisville’s Homeless Shelter Task Force could complete its work in the next few weeks.
A University of Louisville professor walked out of Firday’s homeless shelter task force meeting after his request to speak was denied.
The Louisville task force that will help determine how homeless shelters are regulated will meet again Friday.
The Metro Louisville Planning Commission’s Homeless Shelter Task Force held its first meeting Friday.
Wayside Christian Mission’s annual Thanksgiving meals will be served out of the mission’s Hotel Louisville site.
Wayside Christian Mission needs to obtain one more permit to continue operating its hotel in downtown Louisville through November 2010.