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Show Me Shelter: Reporting on homelessness

Clean blankets sit on a storage room shelf on Dec. 19, 2024, at Room at the Inn in Columbia. Operations Manager Jacqie Melloway said cotton blankets are easier and cheaper to clean than quilts and heavier bedding.
Bailey Stover
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Bailey Stover
Clean blankets sit on a storage room shelf on Dec. 19, 2024, at Room at the Inn in Columbia. Operations Manager Jacqie Melloway said cotton blankets are easier and cheaper to clean than quilts and heavier bedding.

Show Me Shelter: Reporting on homelessness

For several years now, reporters across the Missouri News Network have looked closely at the issue of homelessness in Columbia – and beyond.

Reporters and photographers talked with those who are unhoused, those who are finding ways to help homeless people, and leaders and policymakers working on funding and policy changes to bring change to the homeless community. Here is a collection of those stories.