St. Louis Nonprofit Provides Low-Rent Housing for Homeless
Date Posted: March 26, 2019
Posted In: Organizations,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It was the timing of unfortunate circumstances that threw Wayne Landers into homelessness back in 2017. First, he lost two jobs within two months, after his warehouse job relocated to another city and the popular bar spot he worked at shuttered. Then, the north St. Louis County trailer park he was living in closed, leaving its residents adrift. Landers found himself relying on the kindness of relatives and friends to finance his stay at a motel. He felt lost and depressed.
“I didn’t know where I was going to be from week to week,” Landers said.
Landers remained in effect homeless for three months, until his sister told him about nonprofit Assisi House. Now, he has been living at Assisi 1, one of five low-cost shelters born of the efforts of a group of longtime volunteers working with the homeless. Landers lives in a room with a lock, a place for his personal possessions, and a community of other men in situations similar to his.