Homeless shelter

Hundreds of election ballots were found stacked in an open hallway.

There are 1,160 homeless registered as voters, and they're associated their address with that homeless shelter.

I

don't get it, Mark, and that is so wrong to do that, not have command and control of the ballots.

Maybe that's not the best way to put it.

Avivo, right? The homeless shelter opened this week.

We didn't really get into that in St.

Cloud, I don't think.

Will we notice a difference on the streets? Will this now keep these homeless people off the streets? Will the businesses in that area actually suffer as they were so concerned that they would? As a result, Brigetta's Cafe across the street, will they be inundated with homeless people? Because now there's 50 of them or more living across the street.

Really an interesting thing.

People have been asking, what is that thing there? Well, that's the homeless shelter.

48 little pods, if you will, inside of a building on the holding pond right there, kind of in an industrial area, sort of right across from Wal-Mart.

The one that kind of hits me the most, I would say, um, was this past spring actually.

So not even during necessarily the giving season, um, but we had a homeless shelter here in Barre, Vermont, reach out to us on a random weekend.

They had been running a drive, they were one of our pilot organizations, and they had raised over $10,000 worth of items, um, so a really successful drive.

And on a random Sunday, one of their development directors just reached out to us personally on email and wrote that the items that had been donated through Gift Drive had actually saved people's lives during the cold snap.

And this is something that's growing, and meeting a need that you knew was a need, right? So there's no question of like, "Oh, we're not sure if there's a need for this." I think the numbers show you that there is, and clearly f- feedback like this.

And, you know, if it's not even direct feedback like that, like, I'm assuming it was a food organization, right? It was a, a pantry that you were mentioning that was feeding people that-

It was a homeless shelter, actually.

Homeless shelter.

Thanks for joining us.

The JX starts today with The Debrief, where JPR reporters discuss the stories they've been covering this week, including Oregon's governor debate in Medford, a proposed nickel mine near Gold Beach, and a dispute over Grants Pass' newest homeless shelter.

I'm Maria Carter, JPR's news director.

I'm Roman Battaglia, science, environment, and politics reporter.

And they say that they plan to build a full scale refinery but it's all very much in its nascent phase.

So it sounds like years of reporting to come there, Theo.

Jane, you covered an update in Grants Pass about its newest homeless shelter.

Can you tell us what's