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Austin and Travis County have been talking for years about how to solve the homeless crisis. Williamson County is now having one of its very first community discussions on the issue.
Nashville Tennessean Yevette Smith, 57, happily hugged her cat Whisper in a comfortable apartment in Franklin last week as she sat on a fluffy couch recollecting how opposite her life seemed almost a year ago. "She's been with me through everything," Smith, a California native, said looking down at the faithful Calico companion. Back then, Smith could barely stretch out at night while she slept in her car in a Walmart parking lot. Life was uncomfortable and uncertain. "I was just out there," she said. "It was just Jesus and me against the world ... Sometimes I thought, how do you get through this? But you have to have strong faith and spirit."