The Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen served dinner out of the Ashley Street Center for the first time Monday night after leaving its longtime home of Wilkes Boulevard United Methodist Church.

Room at the Inn executive director John Trapp updated KBIA on how the former winter shelter has been faring since its transition to year-round homeless shelter in October.

Central Missouri Community Action is now managing the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program.

Boone County is asking residents to fill out a survey about their housing needs as part of a large-scale study of the county’s housing market. The county is partnering with the City of Columbia to fund the study in the hopes of finding ways to expand housing opportunities.

Rather than relying on the uncertainty of donations, a local team providing resources and services to unhoused people will receive city funding for the next three years.

For 14 years, the Saturday Morning Breakfast Café has been providing breakfast and a warm place to congregate for Columbia’s unhoused residents. KBIA’s Anna Colletto has been speaking with volunteers and attendees for the past few weeks and sat down with KBIA’s Harshawn Ratanpal to share some behind-the-scenes insights.

Many people who rely on the soup kitchen were not aware the service would be moving.

The operations director for CoMo Mobile Aid Collective said she is seeing bigger numbers than ever in Columbia for those in need of shoes.

Seven emergency shelters are available for overnight stays. Each shelter is specialized to different populations in the community.

The City of Columbia is doing more the address homelessness. By 2024, Columbia will spend at least $1,044,435 on services for the homeless.