Medicine Hat is part of Built for Zero Canada, a national movement of 39 communities working to end chronic and veteran homelessness as a first step to ending all homelessness, powered by the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. If Alberta Canada can end chronic homelessness, surly Fayetteville Arkansas can do SOMETHING to end this crisis.
Long long ago before covid, a friendly homeless guy named Jerry started camping in the yard of an old white apartment house on Government Street. It was a quiet place, next to the National Cemetery and across the street from the sale barn where the neighbors were mostly cows. One of the tenants asked the landlord if Jerry could stay, and they all struck up a friendship. They were friends for a long time, until the tenant got sick and died. But Jerry and the landlord are still friends. Then covid came. With it came a lot of wild and crazy things. Nobody could go […]
