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KCUR 89.3 One of Bartle Hall's exhibition rooms will provide shelter for the homeless until March 31. This was the first weekend and more than 150 people came for a bed. The convention center will now be a temporary shelter as more people find themselves without permanent homes due to the economic impact of the pandemic. It was still dark Sunday morning when William, 50, was among the first to descend the escalator from the cavernous exhibit room at Bartle Hall that, in more normal times, he might visit for a home show. Over the weekend, he and some 150 other people without houses of their ow...

Thankfully, the 70-year-old grandmother recently found a job working as a home health aide.  It hasn’t been in time though for Gillard to get her first paycheck so she could pay the back rent she owes her landlord. It also wasn’t in time to stop that same landlord from sending her an eviction letter.  “I had no idea what I was going to do,” Gillard said.  That’s when she started to pray.  “I was talking to God and I said, ‘I want you to take my hand and hold it because I’m going to put my life in your hands and if I try to pull my hand away, just squeeze it and don’t let...