Homeless

Volunteers as well as those from homeless and veteran’s groups fanned out across Lee County in January counting 820 people who do not have a permanent place to call home. That figure is up from 560 people experiencing homelessness last year.

Lee County commissioners have approved a Continuum of Care grant to fight homelessness.The more than $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will be distributed in various ways.

Lee County has begun a gentle push to help Hurricane Ian victims leave a tent city near Fort Myers Beach. Some of the people are starting their fifth month living under a bridge on the approach to the hurricane-devastated island.

The 26th Annual Candlelight Vigil for the Homeless was held December 21, 2022, on the steps of the Lee County Courthouse. The Lee County Homeless Coalition gathered with the community to remember those who have died while living on the streets or in the shelters of Lee county during the past year and asking to remember those who suffer in the community and face homelessness in Lee County.

Homelessness has been an issue in Fort Myers and Lee County long before Hurricane Ian laid waste to our area. The Lee County Department of Human and Veteran Services is now reaching out to share resources with the countless families newly without a home due to the storm.

Karen Moore, the publisher of Southwest Florida Business Today, is talking about homelessness.

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