City Leaders, Organizations Work to Bring Homeless day Shelter to Aiken
Monday, March 28th, 2022
A new homeless shelter could be headed to Aiken in the next few years. It would provide more options for a community that’s underrepresented. “We slept out here in Gyles Park over there at the train station on the bench. I mean, it’s devastating,” Belinda Johnson shared with NewsChannel 6’s Aiken Bureau Chief Shawn Cabbagestalk. “I slept here one night because I was homeless,” Tary Jones added.
Johnson and Jones are some of the faces of homelessness in the city of Aiken.
Read more at WJBF.
