Waynesboro: Don’t sweep your homeless problem under the rug

Column by Chris Graham
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Cut the strings and let the homeless advocates do what they need to do. That was how I concluded a special report on homelessness in Staunton and Waynesboro that we published back in March, which found that the resources available at the state- and federal-government levels to deal with homelessness aren’t trickling down to the local level very well, at least not here.

What was left unsaid in that piece is how Waynesboro among the sister cities has been doing almost nothing to address or even acknowledge its own homelessness issue – which is now evident with the glare of newspaper headlines and TV-news reports surrounding the recent murder of a homeless man in a tent city set up on the banks of the South River. Read more